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Study Says Cell Phones Can Interfere With Planes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the telco-conspiracy-is-way-more-fun dept.

3x37 writes "The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette website reports a study by Cargenie Mellon University researchers found that cell phones do interfere with airplane cockpit instruments. The researchers came to this takeaway conclusion: "devices like cell phones 'will, in all likelihood, someday cause an accident by interfering with critical cockpit instruments such as GPS receivers.'""

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  1. Good! by xTMFWahoo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    All I need when I'm trying to sleep on my flight is some yahoo yelling on his/her cell phone. I think people can spend just a few hours away from thier cell.

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  2. People have to die first. by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unortunately, the same self-important gadget love that has people driving one-handed while juggling a phone with the other ensures that nobody will ever pay much attention to the cell phone ban until an actual plane crash happens, and is conclusively proven to have been caused by someone's phone.

    Sad, really.

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