TSA mishap results in grounding of nine planes RAW STORY

Published: Tuesday August 19, 2008





Print This Email This Negligence during TSA security checks on planes at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport caused at least forty commuter flights to be delayed after nine American Eagle planes were grounded, a source told ABC News.



A TSA agent, conducting a security check on a parked plane, reportedly used an air thermometer mounted on the plane's fuselage as leverage to climb on.



"The brilliant employees used an instrument located just below the cockpit window that is critical to the operation of the onboard computers," a pilot wrote on an Internet forum. "They decided this instrument, the TAT probe, would be adequate to use as a ladder."



"Our inspector was following routine procedure for securing the aircraft that were on the tarmac," TSA official Elio Montenegro said.



