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[FONT=arial,helvetica,geneva]TSA On Offensive After Damaging Aircraft[/FONT]


While the TSA stipulates that its inspector damaged sensitive external probes while assessing the security of nine American Eagle planes parked overnight at O'Hare, it contends that the inspector got into seven of the nine -- and that American is to blame. Toward that end, the TSA is opening an inquiry into "multiple security violations" by American Eagle. Forty American Eagle flights were delayed to allow mechanics time to determine if probes would still properly function following the inspector's "inspection." The inconvenience and loss of revenue may now be compounded by the TSA's continuing investigation that could theoretically fine the airline up to $175,000, according to the TSA, for leaving their aircraft vulnerable. The TSA said doors were left open on the aircraft and that this week's inspection was a follow-up to earlier inspections, which exposed the same vulnerability.


Regulations require that doors be closed while aircraft are unattended and that jet bridges be pulled away from the aircraft. Those jet bridges are operated using key codes that only airline and airport employees with valid ID are authorized to know. As yet, there's no indication that American was operating outside of security regulations or guidelines. The airline said in a statement it is "confident that it followed all proper security procedures for securing aircraft overnight," and that if they'd gone un-noticed the actions of the inspector "could have jeopardized the safety of our customers and crew."
 
It is criminal for a government agency to try and blame their crimes on the victim. The TSA needs to be stopped.
 
Eagle should turn around and charge the fool that thought an AOA vane was a pull up bar with the appropriate crime that applies. TSA has a success rate worse than Cletus catching the Duke's and they are climbing on airplanes trying to prove a point.

"To thy self be true."
 
TSA complaint form

Fill it out and tell those boneheads what you really think of them.

https://contact.tsa.dhs.gov/DynaForm.aspx?FormID=10

Haha, the top of that page. "Your Safety Is Our Priority"

So they're ensuring our safety by breaking airplanes in a manner that could've caused a fatal accident. The best thing TSA can do for safety is stay away from anything to do with aviation.
 
This would be a much different senario if one of Eagles RJ's plunged into Lake Michigan shortly after takeoff. How would they blame that on AMR?
 
I dont think that a faulty TAT probe would cause an aircraft to crash into the lake.
 
I dont think that a faulty TAT probe would cause an aircraft to crash into the lake.

A TAT. No it wouldn't. What about the PITOT's, the RVSM area, and who knows what those morons may have damaged. If a bad crash had occured, who's gonna get the heat? TSA or Eagle?
 
[FONT=arial,helvetica,geneva]TSA On Offensive After Damaging Aircraft[/FONT]


While the TSA stipulates that its inspector damaged sensitive external probes while assessing the security of nine American Eagle planes parked overnight at O'Hare, it contends that the inspector got into seven of the nine -- and that American is to blame. Toward that end, the TSA is opening an inquiry into "multiple security violations" by American Eagle. Forty American Eagle flights were delayed to allow mechanics time to determine if probes would still properly function following the inspector's "inspection." The inconvenience and loss of revenue may now be compounded by the TSA's continuing investigation that could theoretically fine the airline up to $175,000, according to the TSA, for leaving their aircraft vulnerable. The TSA said doors were left open on the aircraft and that this week's inspection was a follow-up to earlier inspections, which exposed the same vulnerability.


Regulations require that doors be closed while aircraft are unattended and that jet bridges be pulled away from the aircraft. Those jet bridges are operated using key codes that only airline and airport employees with valid ID are authorized to know. As yet, there's no indication that American was operating outside of security regulations or guidelines. The airline said in a statement it is "confident that it followed all proper security procedures for securing aircraft overnight," and that if they'd gone un-noticed the actions of the inspector "could have jeopardized the safety of our customers and crew."

I just threw up after reading that.
 

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