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Passengers in Murcia, Spain were held up for three hours as they waited for a flight to Newcastle, England, after a passenger dropped and lost his or her cell phone. The passenger was disembarking the arriving plane when he or she dropped the cell phone and it fell down an air vent. It's not clear from the BBC report whether the passenger saw it fall down the vent or if it simply disappeared from view. Regardless, the pilots decided they couldn't take off until the phone, which was on, was found.
For the next three hours passengers were kept waiting while Jet2 dismantled the cockpit and the front rows of seats in order to find and retrieve a dang cell phone.
Really puts our ex's hissy-fits into perspective. [From: BBC]
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsTom HolzelOct 21st 2009 11:22AM
Of course this moronic news service is not going to tell you whether they FOUND the cell phone or not. Don't want to over-burden the dim-wit public with too much information...
timOct 21st 2009 11:34AM
Obviously they viewed this as a security threat, since cell phones can trigger explosives. So the airline's behavior makes perfect sense.
pst2868Oct 21st 2009 11:50AM
why didn't they call the number of the cell phone? that should give them an idea of where the phone is.
JeromeOct 21st 2009 1:14PM
To pst2868;
It is a requirement to turn off cellphones on planes these days.
JackiOct 21st 2009 1:30PM
The article said the phone was turned on.
JeromeOct 21st 2009 2:13PM
Sorry, I thought this was the article. I didn't realise that this was just a very vague write-up based on a real article. I did not read the actual article, as I wasn't even aware of it.
This bit is awful. There were no significant details mentioned here. I am with Tom Holzel on this. Why would someone waste their time writing about this event, if they are just going to leave out answers for common sense details?
What a waste!
inthewolvesdenOct 21st 2009 1:34PM
a cell phone that is ON can mess with a plane's electronics, so it seems to me that this was a safety issue. besides, we've all flown, we know that an airline doesn't care about a passenger to delay a plane out of kindness.
NoahOct 23rd 2009 10:06PM
That's a common misconception, but it is incorrect. Cell phones do not interfere with airplane electronics. I'm not aware of the reason behind why the FAA and airlines insist on telling people this is the reason for their "no cell-phones" policy.
farOct 23rd 2009 11:48PM
why there's the no cellphone policy is because they want you to not make calls in the middle of the night. it would disturb passengers and also, how would services charge for that? long distance?
and if you really need to talk, you have the expensive in-plane phone. they want you to use that.