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The Real Reasons Phones Are Kept Off Planes
jcatcw writes "Mike Elgan argues that the the real reason that cell phones calls are not allowed is fear of crowd control problems if calls are allowed during flight. Also, the airlines like keeping passengers ignorant about ground conditions. The two public reasons, interference with other systems, could easily be tested, but neither the FAA nor the FCC manage to do such testing."
Sure, we could solve the problem if we completely redesigned, modified and tested every susceptible aircraft and cellular network on the planet. That wouldn't cost much money.
Anyone who uses the results of an episode of Mythbusters as proof of anything deserves to be ridiculed.
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They should ban kids from carryon luggage and make parents check them.
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I'm pretty sure I don't agree with the crowd control theory either.
In the six years I worked at an airline, I've never heard anyone speak of passengers as negatively as this article does.
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So I guess that puts you somewhere in the grade 9 range? LOLWTFOMG pwnage!!!11!1! (I kid, I kid).
Godless heathen.
I just don't know if I could take it.
Calmly take the cellphone, push it down your underpants and give it a good rub around there. Hand it back, smiling silently.
I guarantee that you won't have to worry about that person putting the cellphone anywhere near their face for the remainder of the flight.
Hello operator, I need a fire truck with a REEEALLY long ladder.
Though if things are that big an emergency, when they need your location it'll be "that big smoking crater".
Didn't some guy call his wife from one of the 9/11 planes? It's not like that plane cra-wait, nevermind.
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I think the plane crashed because they all used their cell phones.
Heh, it's the exact reason Snakes Are Kept Off Planes
I mean, they don't allow you to sit in the cockpit anymore. Another thing islam has ruined.
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Attacking a religion like that is just pure flamebait.
You probably shouldn't have brought up Islam either.
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Imagine a five hour flight with someone yapping on their cellphone the whole time...
That cannot be the real reason. Why would it be the FAA's job and the airline's job to enforce that? Why would they care?
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If there is a 'real' reason for no cellphones on planes, I think its about time we found out the *real* reason people are not allowed to bring decent quantities of drinking water on planes.
It is, surely, trivial to test whether a given substance is H2O. I mean, how hard can it be?
It is, surely, trivial to test whether the container has got a false top containing water and the rest of it contains some other (possibly explosive) substance. Those xrays give pretty detailed views plus you could push a probe down the mouth of the bottle and wave it about. They do this to passengers all the time.
Therefore there has to be a reason why passengers are not allowed to bring *water* onto planes.
One theory is that the homeland security guys figured out a way to harm an aircraft by pouring enough water into or onto a certain area of the passenger compartment of the plane; flooding it with a conductive fluid.
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In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
IIRC, the combo is up up down down left right left right B A.
I mean, they don't allow you to sit in the cockpit any more.
What, Pilots have to stand nowadays?
I thought they were glorified bus-drivers, not glorified tram-drivers!
LOL, good burn. :)
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