Pictured: iPhone with its flash switched on used to record girl, 14, as she used American Airlines first class bathroom – with victim accusing flight attendant of planting it there

A chilling photograph shows an iPhone camera with its blazing flash allegedly used to try to capture a 14-year-old girl using a plane’s first-class toilet.

The teenager, who has not been named, found the phone before she was about to flush the first-class toilet on American Airlines Flight 1441 from Charlotte, South Carolina. North, bound for Boston, North Carolina, on September 2.

She believes a flight attendant may have deliberately placed the recording device there.

Two makeshift “remove from service” stickers were placed on the seat by the male flight attendant, which apparently supported the weight of the recording phone.

The mobile’s camera flash was on and sticking out from the bottom of the sticker near the toilet bowl, an image taken by the quick-witted teenager shows.

His father, who remained anonymous, said CBS Boston: ‘She got up and walked towards the coach’s bathroom.’

A flight attendant told her it would be quicker if she used the toilet in first class – but that it was also currently being used by another passenger.

When he was free, he went in before her, saying he had to pick up the trash and wash his hands.

The flight attendant then came out and told the 14-year-old that the seat was broken and would be repaired when they landed in Charlotte.

The girl then used the toilet as normal, but it was when she went to flush that she spotted the phone sticking out of a makeshift sticker reading ‘seat broken’.

While standing thinking, the teenager took a photo on her phone of this disturbing sight.

She rushed to tell her parents, who dove in to stop another passenger from using the restroom. When they entered, the phone and tape were missing.

The girl’s mother and father then rushed to confront the flight attendants, and when the man saw the photo taken on the phone, “his face went completely white,” according to the father.

The case is now being handled by the FBI.

The girl was traveling with her mother, father and 10-year-old younger sister.

Federal authorities asserted jurisdiction over the investigation when police concluded the incident occurred mid-flight.

Massachusetts State Police at Boston Logan International Airport were notified at 10 a.m. Sept. 2 of the potential foul play that occurred on the American Airlines flight.

The male flight attendant was kicked off the American Airlines flight.

State Police Troop F, which has jurisdiction at Boston Logan International Airport, was the first to arrive on scene.

A soldier from the unit said WSOC the incident “involved a minor, a telephone and a flight attendant.”

“When she was about to go to the bathroom, he stopped her and said, ‘Hey, wait a second, we’re about to start picking up trash, so I’m going to wash my hands.’ “, said another passenger.

In a statement to DailyMail.com, American Airlines said: “We take this matter very seriously and are cooperating fully with law enforcement in their investigation, as safety and security are our highest priorities.”

State police determined the alleged act occurred in mid-flight, which falls under federal jurisdiction.