About Electronics on planes.

[Recursion]

You do realise quite a few airlines allow you to use a mobile phone nowadays?

You aren't allowed to use them during take off and landing in case of an emergency, in which case you need to know where you are, what to do etc...

And tbh, on the way back from Lanzarote my dad was using his UMPC and didn't ever bother to turn off Bluetooth or WiFi.

[xxMATTGxx]

You do realise quite a few airlines allow you to use a mobile phone nowadays?

You aren't allowed to use them during take off and landing in case of an emergency, in which case you need to know where you are, what to do etc...

And tbh, on the way back from Lanzarote my dad was using his UMPC and didn't ever bother to turn off Bluetooth or WiFi.

Correct, for example British Airways let you use mobile phones as long as they are in "In Flight Mode"

[Recursion]

I meant, some airlines actually have cell sites on the plane so people can use their mobiles to call etc.

[StickMan]

LOL omg.. yeah if the terrorists were half decent they'd look up the flightplan and attack it enroute, as well as tuning into the air traffic control to find out where the plane is going..

and if a terroist was on board I highly doubt he'd phone someone up to blow up the plane he is on, instead of just doing it from the ground?

just pmsl at that post srsly..

11/09/01

how did it happened?

Dan/