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With rude passengers and terrorist thoughts in the mind of airline officials and passengers, British parliament members (MPs) are holding steady against any airline policy that would allow in-flight mobile phone use. The real reason they are scared, from what we can glean, is related to the remote detonation of bombs on planes by terrorists. Outside of the
Executive Decision movie scenario being painted here, the MPs referenced the 2004 Madrid bombings being set off by cellphones in explaining their support for the ban. As such, we don't see any mobile use coming on Britain-originated flights soon. Better catch a
Qantas flight instead, heh.
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Posted
Jul 25 2007, 01:10 PM
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Filed under: Handsets, Culture, airplane, Mobile Phone, cellphone, MobilePhone, airplain phone, in flight mobile us, FlightPhone, AirplainPhone, InFlightMobileUs, airphone, flight phone