{"id":3056,"date":"2008-08-20T13:27:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T13:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2008-08-20T13:28:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T13:28:42","slug":"reason-49367-to-not-travel-to-the-us-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/20\/reason-49367-to-not-travel-to-the-us-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason #49,367 to not travel to the US anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TSA Snafu Damages Nine Planes at O&#8217;Hare Field &#8211; Pilots Furious with Misstep<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nine American Eagle airplanes were grounded Tuesday after a TSA inspector, conducting an overnight security check, used sensitive instrument probes to climb onto the parked aircraft at Chicago&#8217;s O&#8217;Hare Airport. A TSA official confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The TSA agent, as part of spot inspection of aircraft security, climbed onto the parked aircraft using control sensors mounted on the fuselage as handholds, according to a TSA official.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our inspector was following routine procedure for securing the aircraft that were on the tarmac,&#8221; said the official. The TSA agent was attempting to determine if someone could break into a parked aircraft, according to the agent.<\/p>\n<p>Pilots were furious at the TSA misstep.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The brilliant employees used an instrument located just below the cockpit window that is critical to the operation of the onboard computers,&#8221; one pilot wrote on an American Eagle internet forum. &#8220;They decided this instrument, the TAT probe, would be adequate to use as a ladder,&#8221; the pilot wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Another pilot wrote the TSA agents, &#8220;are now doing things to our aircraft that may put our lives, and the lives of our passengers at risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The TSA has been conducting such overnight spot checks at airports around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Source: ABC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSA Snafu Damages Nine Planes at O&#8217;Hare Field &#8211; Pilots Furious with Misstep Nine American Eagle airplanes were grounded Tuesday after a TSA inspector, conducting an overnight security check, used sensitive instrument probes to climb onto the parked aircraft at Chicago&#8217;s O&#8217;Hare Airport. A TSA official confirmed the incident. The TSA agent, as part of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/20\/reason-49367-to-not-travel-to-the-us-anymore\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Reason #49,367 to not travel to the US anymore&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,136,87],"class_list":["post-3056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brought-to-you-by-the-fda","tag-god-bless-the-land-of-the-free","tag-news-from-the-stupid"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-Ni","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}