Cellphones vs Airliner?

Wednesday 29 April 2009 - Filed under Uncategorized

I have no idea whether this actually happened, but it’s a pretty good story either way:

Supposedly, an Airbus fly-by-wire airliner on a domestic route in Thailand was trying to land in a storm. The pilot aborted three times then told his cargo he was diverting; around 200 cellphones simultaneously lit up so their owners could tell their wives they’d be, er, late. 10% of the power of a microwave oven inside a reflective aluminium tube containing people, avionics, and cellphones? The jet flipped over and, uh, ‘augered in’.

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