http://www.aero-news.net/news/genav.cfm?ContentBlockID=ae0f320a-39c0-4684-99d4-503a300a5a00&Dynamic=1 By Jim Campbell Editor-In-Chief ANN/Aero-TV August 20, 2008 The great TSA-ORD Inspector scandal seems to be but the tip of the proverbial iceberg... and the theme song from the Titanic is playing in the background. ANN has learned that the Inspector that instigated the inspections of nine American Eagle ERJs and created innumerable delays and hassle for the flying public has reportedly DONE THIS BEFORE. As ANN reported earlier this week, the Clouseau-esque inspector damaged the Total Air Temperature (TAT) probes while the planes were parked on the tarmac at O'Hare Tuesday morning. The probes are an important part of an airliner's flight information system, as they provide real-time temperature information to the planes' EFIS displays and computers... giving flight crews precise information about the aircraft's altitude, and warning of potential icing conditions inflight. Fortunately, maintenance crews discovered the damaged TAT probes before any of the planes took off on commercial passenger flights... though the need to fix the aircraft did lead to over 40 flight delays for American Eagle passengers. A flight crew member who has been in contact with ANN previously, with solid credible info on this and other matters, reports the following, "This was not the first time that this same TSA agent had done this. After one of our ORD mechanics caught him doing this he explained that he could damage the TAT sensor. The agent then admitted that he used the sensors many times in the past doing the same thing. The AMR spokesperson states that no TAT sensors were damaged, but she was speaking about the particular aircraft inspected on the 19th. There were no damage found on the morning of the 19th, but another aircraft did have a damaged #1 TAT sensor that was discovered on the morning of the 16th at ORD that the mechanics suspect was caused by the same agent." [...] __________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2008 - Malaysia! With a new triple-track conference featuring 4 keynote speakers and over 35 international experts, this is the largest network security event in Asia and the Middle East! http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2008kl/Received on Mon Aug 25 2008 - 02:17:42 PDT
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