The Brief A woman says she was sexually assaulted twice on a United flight departing from O’Hare in 2024. In a Fox 32 special report, Kasey Chronis looks at why concerns about sexual assault on airplanes are growing. The Ohio businesswoman was on a layover at O’Hare Airport for a work trip when she boarded a United flight to San Diego. How the flight crew responded"This flight attendant told me I was out of touch with reality if I thought we weren’t going to bump elbows on a full plane. "So when he (flight attendant) walked away, the individual who was next to me took that as an opportunity to grab me again.