As an airline employee, I think this is outrageous. However on the other hand we obviously do not have all of the facts. Being that this is a small apo it really could have been due to the fact that there were no ground crew in the airport. No one to pull the jetbridge to the aircraft etc....
If this is the case, they have no way of letting pax off of the plane. They are not going to just drop the stairs (if they have them....not all planes do) and let people run free on the tarmac. I can be sure when the crew landed there, it was because they HAD to. It has to be an almost emergency situation for a plane to land somewhere they do not service. The crew is completley at the mercy of air traffic control.
The fact that they blamed it on no TSA in the apo is ridiculous. There is no need for screening unless they pass outside of security.
