> 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.

Probably thousands of people leave their phone on by mistake (or on 
purpose) on flights daily, I've done it myself (by accident) at least 
twice.  It surely isn't much of a safety issue otherwise they would 
rigorously check every single phone on board.

I imagine also below a certain height you can easily get a signal from 
the ground based base stations, occasionally on a flight you hear 
someone's phone beep as the plane is coming in to land.

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