If that's the case, I still can't see how people called their loved ones on those hijacked planes on 9/11. Oh I forgot, that's an unpatriotic question. Welcome to 1984.
What? How did you go from this article to a 9/11 reference? My guess is in that case, the passengers said "well, since I am going to die I will disregard the cellphone rule and make a few calls."
The passengers were able to make calls because the plane was flying at a very low altitude and therefore, their phones had a signal from the cell towers on the ground. If the plane was flying at its normal cruising altitude of 30,000 feet, then passengers' cellphones wouldn't get any signal from the cell towers on the ground.
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If that's the case, I still can't see how people called their loved ones on those hijacked planes on 9/11. Oh I forgot, that's an unpatriotic question. Welcome to 1984.
What? How did you go from this article to a 9/11 reference? My guess is in that case, the passengers said "well, since I am going to die I will disregard the cellphone rule and make a few calls."
The passengers were able to make calls because the plane was flying at a very low altitude and therefore, their phones had a signal from the cell towers on the ground. If the plane was flying at its normal cruising altitude of 30,000 feet, then passengers' cellphones wouldn't get any signal from the cell towers on the ground.
Then it was all the cellphone calls that screwed up the plane's GPS and other electronics and caused it to crash, then?