Turn your phone off when told to - or risk being kicked off your flight

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1-29-2010 @ 9:48PM

Lynn said...

I've been a flight student before, and the reason they ask you to turn off electronics on takeoff is because some gear can interfere with navigational equipment on the airplane, such as the Instrument Landing System which is important. I think they were right to repremand the guy with the cell phone but I disagree with them cancelling his ticket and refusing to fly him home from a foreign country. He may have learned his lesson getting thrown off the flight. They would always be free to do the same thing if he did the same thing going home ...

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