That US Airways Employee Won't Be Fired for 'Honest Mistake'

The US Airways employee who accidentally tweeted a lewd picture from the company's Twitter account will not be fired, according to US Airways spokesperson Matt Miller.

"It was an honest mistake," Miller said on Tuesday.

The company had "investigated" the situation and determined that the picture was erroneously posted after a it was first tweeted at the account by a user. Then, in an attempt to flag the picture as inappropriate and notify Twitter, a US Airways employee accidentally ended up including it in its own tweet.

"It was done as part of the process to capture the tweet to flag it as inappropriate," Miller said. "Unfortunately, the link to the image was inadvertently included in a response to a customer." Read more...