Originally Posted by
AirportOPS
Please forgive me for this, but you guys gotta stop worrying about the TSA.... They are useless! They have no powers of arrest, they have very limited power to detain. Any law enforcement decision will be made by the local authorities, who are brought to act by AIRPORT OPERATIONS.
Is that what happened to the AT pilot? I could be wrong, but wasn't he yanked out of the cockpit and taken to the pokey by police?
In other words, did the local authorities listen to his side of the story before doing so?