Interesting encounter with a TSA agent

[Prop2Jet]

Thousands Standing Around (TSA) now they want stand in our airplanes at o dark thirty!!!! Show him the Lav, turn off the bats lock the door call the police and say someone has broken into the airplane!!!!

 

[Nolife]

They do walk around and check things out. I got ramped in GSO one morning by the TSA. General questions and checking things out... compliance with 12.5 and the like.

 

[Workin'Stiff]

We had a TSA type person board our aircraft right at the tail end of boarding in CRW. He came up in the cockpit, showed us his badge and said that he was going to conduct an internal inspection of the aircraft. We noticed that he had a camera with him after he started taking a bunch of pictures of our restroom. The captain and I got really suspicious at this point and told him to get off of the aircraft. We called our "Director of Security", relived the story to him and had the whole aircraft deplaned. Needless to say, this TSA dude got a royal chewing from the supervisor from what I heard later on.

 

[737 Pylt]

Think about it, half those TSA d!pshts wouldn't know a security problem if it ran them over.

I bet you resemble that remark!

They are just a bunch of losers that are too lazy and stupid to work at Wendy's.

Speaking from experience eh??

I had the same thing happen, two TSA dorks wanted on board to do an "inspection". I told them there is nothing I know of in our manuals and that I would check on it and let them know, after 25 minutes of waiting at the bottom of the stairs they gave up and left.

I didn't know a C-172 had stairs on it?! I bet you impress all the chicks and your fellow flight instructors with that story!


737

 

[flyboyzii]

I am just waiting for a pilot to call the police and report that he smelled alcohol on a TSA screeners breath. Now that would be funny, I don't care who you are.

Ha ha ha ha Hey, I might try that.

 

[skiandsurf]

I had a TSA ramp inspection as well. Was in LAS. When I arrived at the gate, the gate agent cautioned us of a TSA ramp check. I have never heard of this. The guy drove to the plane in the Official TSA car. He came onboard and asked to see the First Aid Kit and the Emergency Medical Kit. Wanted to see that they were sealed and the scissors were not available.

 

[WaterSkiette]

Whoa!! Stall02-- I had the same experience. I'm an F/A. My crew and I showed up in CVG to go out to the plane. No agents or anyone around, as usual, to let us outside. This plain clothes TSA guy with a SIDA badge let us out and just FOLLOWED US OUT to the airplane. He got on and didn't say anything to the cockpit crew, just to me. Said he was there to observe my morning security check. He was kinda hot, so I didn't protest!
He watched me do EVERYTHING and then he had all these strange questions about the screws in the Lavatory and above/below my jumpseat. Apparently Trans States had agreed to comply with a new directive from the TSA to have those items covered with a "tamper-evident seal" and Trans States either forgot or didn't care. So like a week later this memo came out that we had to look for tamper evident seals over all the screws in the back of the plane. Anyways it was a TOTAL pain in the ass. We were delayed four hours before MX could come out and rig something up. Ended up only having one passenger because we were so late.
The TSA dude was really weird, acting nervous, making phone calls, taking notes.... and he never spoke to the female Captain. He acted like it was his right to be on our airplanes and that we were responsible to him!! Freaking nuts man! Made me so uncomfortable to have this man watching me crawl under seats in the dark!!! ahhh!

 

[XPOO]

At a previous job a TSA Supervisor stormed the cockpit of a 737 after the Captain offloaded PAX due to a MX issue. The Captain jumped out of his seat and with full force pushed the Supv. out of the cockpit and all the way back into the jet bridge and was ready to take him out. Airport security was called in and the Supv was escorted back into the terminal. Nothing happened to the Captain but word has it that the Supv got one hell of an @ss-chewing from his Director.

Rules that I understood at the time stated that is was Captain's disgretion only for allowance onto the flight deck. This Supv came strolling in without any approval from said Captain so he took immediate action.

Hope that helps!

 

[skiandsurf]

I think you guys need to settle down. You are hired to fly the plane. These guy are hired to protect you and your plane. You get paid for doing your job, just like they get paid to do their job.

The time that I got "TSA ramp checked", I asked him a few questions. Mostly just curious about this type of check. I have never heard of it and was making sure he was who he said he was....yeah I checked his ID.

I didnt give him a hard time. This was on the Airbus, and he was on and gone within 2 or 3 minutes.

Remember, if you piss these guys off, they will give us a hard time going thru security. And, I think that they can really ruin your carreer by saying that you are a mental case and might need further evaluation.

 

[ATTCS]

Remember, if you piss these guys off, they will give us a hard time going thru security. And, I think that they can really ruin your carreer by saying that you are a mental case and might need further evaluation.

Where have you been for the last 5 years??? Do you remember the spring and summer of 2002? There was almost a passenger revolt against TSA during that summer.