TSA on plane?
 

Anyone ever witness this? I was sitting patiently the other day and onto the airplane come two of the TSA's finest. I was sitting pretty far forward, so wasn't sure what they were doing, but it appears they were on the plane for under 2 minutes. Maybe I'm normally unobservant, but I've never seen this before. What's the deal?

Probably lost:rolleyes:

they were probably sent to the gates to observe and they thought that meant, go inside the plane... not following rules..>!!

Enough, is ENOUGH

I have HAD IT with these @#$^%#@$ snakes on this @#$@^%$#@ plane!

I was actually quite serious with this question! Things I've never seen before interest me, especially when it concerns the TSA.

I can't believe somebody already beat me to this one only 4 posts into the thread. Well, played. Well played, indeed. :)

Possibilities range from the totally innocent to the totally sinister.

On the innocent end of the spectrum ... some TSOs have reported here that they've gone to extraordinary lengths to return abandoned items to their owners. It could be as simple as a TSO doing a good deed for someone.

On the not-so-innocent end of the spectrum ... we've also seen situations where a passenger manages to escape exit a checkpoint without "completing screening", because the passenger innocently left the checkpoint without realizing that the screening wasn't finished. In those situations, if TSA could track down the passenger, I could certainly see them coming aboard the plane and insisting that the passenger disembark in order to be "properly rescreened".

Somewhere in-between ... we've had plenty of reports here of situations where gate agents get paranoid concerned about a particular passenger of color and ask TSA to give their opinion on whether or not the passenger is safe to fly. We've seen at least a few stories (recently, even) where TSA comes to a gate, interviews the passenger briefly, says "they're fine", and leaves.

So ... in the absence of any other information, there's no real way to know what was going on. But given TSA's propensity for dumping terminals, I'd guess that since you didn't experience a travel interruption, everything was probably just fine.

How many screeners does it take to return a lost driver's license or phone? Shouldn't be more than one, should it?

They heard a rumor that machines exist that can fly like birds and carry people, and they wanted to see it from up close.

"Boss, can I have a couple of minutes to take this iPhone back to the passenger who left it here? No, I'm sure I can handle it on my own. I'm sure that I'd never be tempted to stick it in my pocket once I get around the corner and just pretend that I gave it back to the passenger. You can trust me completely."

:)

TSA frequently boards and does a quick search of the aircraft. Usually screws our quick turn times.

It happened twice on, you guessed it, Tuesday the 11th.

Wouldn't the pilots have something to say about this?

IMO they would. They do not do it here.

Do you mean "something to say" as in talk to management about trying to change the rules? Or do you mean "something to say" as in "Don't let any TSA agent walk onto a plane I am schedule to fly"?

I have my doubts about their ability to say the 2nd.