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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:24 am Post subject: Aero-News: Quote of the Day (08.20.08) |
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"The brilliant employees used an instrument located just below the cockpit window that is critical to the operation of the onboard computers. They decided this instrument, the TAT probe, would be adequate to use as a ladder." Source: From a post on an American Eagle internet forum, in reference to an incident Tuesday at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Citing sources within the aviation industry, ABC News reports an overzealous TSA employee attempted to gain access to the parked aircraft by climbing up the fuselage... reportedly using the Total Air Temperature (TAT) probes mounted to the planes' noses as handholds.
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