Fly The Yammering Skies

Reading of the race underway to allow cell phone use on airplanes, we learn (are we the last?) that cell phones are not banned because they interfere with navigation, but because they would blow out cellular networks on the ground.

It seems obvious now, and of course this explains how hundreds of people used their cell phones on September 11, 2001 from the hijacked planes.

Fly The Yammering Skies

Reading of the race underway to allow cell phone use on airplanes, we learn (are we the last?) that cell phones are not banned because they interfere with navigation, but because they would blow out cellular networks on the ground.

It seems obvious now, and of course this explains how hundreds of people used their cell phones on September 11, 2001 from the hijacked planes.