Fair enough. Something will probably turn up if it's true.

And if it does turn out to be true, I'll be right on here saying how dumb it is for anyone to be grabbing a hold of any probes on the side of an aircraft (took the TSO cap off here, now speaking as a pilot).

Is your brethren aviation security inspector still working for the TSA in ORD?

Don't know. I don't work at ORD.

Perhaps I can keep my fingers crossed and I'll run into him in the aircraft operating area. Oh and give you a hint, the reaction of the TSA in Chicago was to threaten American Eagle with a multi-hundred-thousand dollar fine for the aviation security inspector getting close enough to the SAAB 340s.

Not exactly an apology, and not exactly a "he is no longer employed with the TSA".

You want respect, earn it first by correcting your agency's mistakes.

IIRC, they were ERJ135/140/145 jet aircraft that the TSI at ORD damaged.

I have checked with our Office of Security Operations and there have been no such incidents at DFW as the one mentioned in this thread.

Thanks,

Blogger Bob
TSA Blog Team

And we should believe you and the Office of Security Operations why? Of course such an incident is going to be denied if it's already been made somewhat public.

It's a real shame when someone takes a "Vega-Matic" to their credibility.

This was cross posted on another discussion board and resulted in the following...

All we've seen on this forum is an unsubstantiated rumor of an event that, to me, stretches credibility. "Upwards of ten TSA agents were fired...." Does this mean all of the inspectors in the Fort Worth office went out in a group and simultaneously climbed on the planes in "formation" like Blue Angels pilots? Or, did they just plan to do it individually during their respective shifts? Don't you think that out of 10+ people, at least one of them would have suggested that it wasn't a good idea (based on the ORD incident and/or TSA policy/training that was, hopefully, instituted following the ORD incident)?

Now, I realize that there are some here for whom no amount of evidence will convince them that anything that happens isn't TSA's fault. I don't think that attitude helps the cause. It plays well with the choir, but it results in the majority of people to consider what you say as the rantings of a lunatic.

Yup. I've been wondering even about that earthquake in Haiti....

Bruce

Don't give Pat Robertson any more ideas....

Well, rumor has it that....