Note that the situation with Flight 93 involved inbound calls to 
passenger cellphones, which the built-in payphones would be useless for.

-Adam


David Savage wrote:
> What? Terrorists?
> 
> Airliners are concerned about the possibility of radio/navigation
> equipment interference, hence the shielding reference.
> 
> That's why every seat on most modern aircraft have built in payphones.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave
> 
> On 10/14/07, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> If it were not for cel-phones that last 9-11 airliner would have hit 
>> something
>> too. It seems sad that the price all those folks paid to save others is now
>> rewarded by an absolute ban on using them???
>>
>> I would like to make the point that it has been proven over and over that
>> airlines would not know a terrorist or hijacker if they walked onto one of 
>> their
>> airplanes. It would be worth putting up with all the BS if it did some good, 
>> but
>> it is only a show put on by people who are basically incompetent. What we are
>> dealing with as in almost all these kinds of cases is an authority problem,
>> sometimes referred to as a God Complex.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cotty wrote:
>>> <http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2201081/man-arrested-iphone>
> 


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