I'm still not clear. What are you saying didn't happen? The entire incident, all of it made up of whole cloth? Then all news reports, including the AJC report afterward quoting AirTran and TSA officials' explanations of an Atlanta-Houston flight forced to return to the gate, were 100 percent fictional exercises in creative writing that made it into print on the news pages thanks to an email gone viral?
Or are you saying that what didn't happen was the version being presented by AirTran and TSA?