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The TSA and the Airline industry this week got into a big battle over airline safety.  It would seem that a TSA inspector attempting to determine whether or not airplanes had been securely protected overnight, while not in use, attempted to breach the security of said airplanes, by trying to climb up and into them.

That was apparently part of the inspectors job.

The thing is, in climbing up and into the planes, he used special temperature gauges fastened to the exterior of the planes as hand holds, damaging the gauges and causing almost 10 airplanes to be grounded for serious safety concerns while they were repaired.

The TSA is now threatening to fine the Airlines for not keeping their planes secure enough from an assault by terrorists, ninjas or TSA inspectors, while the Airlines are thinking about litigating the TSA for lost business and damages, not to mention failing to notify the airlines that the inspector had damaged critical airline systems.

This would appear to demark the end of the honeymoon between the TSA and the airline industry.  Theirs was never a marriage of love, and always a forced affair, but all pretenses would appear to be out the window now as they start focusing on working against each other like a Mesothelioma lawyer hunting an asbestos tainted factory.  It is unlikely that consumers will benefit from the battles leading up to the divorce.