Originally Posted by
Bigpimppilot
Wasn't that bleed leak thing discovered when we got the 145s back from Tsa? My info may be shady on that but I remember hearing the Feds were called out to look at a bunch of mx stuff. Wasn't tsa then given more flying at a future date? All was forgiven and they got their ducks in a row I guess.
The fuel low level sensor in the left tank kept activating and being put on MEL. Eventually, some TSA mechanic gave up and cut the wires to it. Our mechanics in ABI found it (among other things) and called the FAA to come look at some of the things they were finding. It amazes me to this day that TSA wasn't fined out of existence by the feds.
Each aircraft we got back from them took on average of 1 million dollars of parts/labor to bring it up to airworthiness standards according to the American Eagle President at the time.