Dvorak Uncensored (Free subscription) | yesterday
ABC News: TSA Snafu Grounds Nine Planes at O’Hare Field — Read this whole story. It’s fishy and it sounds like some sort of overtime scam too. “The brilliant employees used an instrument located just below the cockpit window that is critical to the operation of the onboard computers,” one pilot wrote on an American Eagle [...]
linkfilter.net - fresh links (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
on Aug 20, 2008 11:59am. (+100XP)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's O'Hare Airport, aviation sources tell ABCNews.com.How do you translate "NOT A STEP" into Stupid': 0 Hits: 2 Points: 163704 Vote Now! [
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Transportation Security Administration official touched sensitive equipment, officials say A blunder by a federal security officer inspecting aircraft forced American Eagle to delay 40 flights Tuesday at O'Hare International Airport while the planes were examined for possible damage, airline officials said.
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Transportation Security Administration official touched sensitive equipment, officials say A blunder by a federal security officer inspecting aircraft forced American Eagle to delay 40 flights Tuesday at O'Hare International Airport while the planes were examined for possible damage, airline officials said.
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
A TSA inspector is able to enter several parked, unattended jets, but the airline defends its security practices The Transportation Security Administration suffered embarrassment Wednesday over an inspector who climbed carelessly around the outside of nine American Eagle planes parked overnight at O'Hare International Airport. But just hours later, the agency struck back, saying the government...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Drill is part of preparation for 2010 screening requirement A mobile X-ray machine capable of screening the contents of large cargo containers was used for the first time Tuesday to check trucks entering O'Hare International Airport, authorities said.
The Lobby from SPG (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Late summer in Chicago is a perfect time in the city. The weather is great for exploring the city on foot, and there's plenty going on in the museums, theaters, and galleries downtown. It's still possible to sneak in a trip to Chicago before the end of the season, thanks to Starpicks. The Westin O'Hare is one of this week's participating Starpicks properties, with last-minute rates of at least...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
American Airlines: 'It's an Unfortunate Situation'
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Chicago, though, working around obstacle These days the controversial little cemetery near O'Hare International Airport is flanked on the east by two barbwire-topped construction fences. To the west is a patch of flattened land waiting to be covered by concrete.
CNN (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The Transportation Security Administration said Thursday it was opening an inquiry into "multiple security violations" by American Eagle at Chicago's O'Hare airport just a day after the airline complained a TSA inspector could have jeopardized the safety of their aircraft by grabbing a probe on the fuselage of several planes to hoist himself aboard.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
... a founding member of the global oneworld(R) Alliance, will begin nonstop flights from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to Montego Bay, Jamaica, on Jan. 31, 2009. Though American has long served Montego Bay, it will be the airline's first-ever nonstop flight there from Chicago. American will operate one nonstop flight five days a week between Chicago and Montego Bay, using Boeing...
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Transportation Security Administration says an apparently careless inspector crawling about a parked jet fleet actually exposed security flaws.The incident occurred at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport where a reported government employee climbed around the outside of nine American Eagle planes parked overnight and gained access to seven of them, the Chicago Tribune said.American Airlines,...
Coyote Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mayor Daley of Chicago has a great idea: despite already having rail transit service between O'Hare Airport and Downtown, he wants to build a new non-stop express rail line to save travelers about 9 minutes. After all, if Moscow just...
Chicago news (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
The CTA's work to eliminate slow zones on the O'Hare branch of the Blue Line resumes this weekend and will result in service being temporarily suspended to some Northwest Side stations.
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rain has been in remarkably short supply in recent weeks—hardly enough to keep up with the 1.40 inches of water lost each week to evaporation in the warm August sun. The last measurable rain to fall here was the 0.06 inches at O'Hare on Aug. 13. Truly significant rain has been absent even longer. It was almost three weeks ago that a lightning-laced thunderstorm complex unleashed driving downpours...
