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Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:31:03 -0800, Darren New wrote:
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>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> There's probably nothing that prevents the cell signal from being used,
>>> and if the plane is already doomed, turning on a cell phone isn't
>>> likely to make things worse.
>> The primary reason not to do this is that your phone will be in range of
>> many more towers than you normally would be. For some cell systems, this
>> is a Bad Thing, for performance, capacity, and possibly even for
>> routing. It probably has nothing to do with the actual plane
>> electronics.
>
> Well, I do recall that the Mythbusters tested this myth, and it rated
> "plausible" with relation to the electronics. Still, I've been on plenty
> of planes where people have not turned off their phones and they all made
> it to their destination without incident...
Um, yeah. That's waht I was saying. It's not a problem for the airplane.
It's a problem for the phone carriers.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"How did he die?" "He got shot in the hand."
"That was fatal?"
"He was holding a live grenade at the time."
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