In case you didn’t know: Cell Phones Don’t Crash Airplanes
In case you didn’t know, cell phones don’t crash airplanes. Here’s what the folk at PC World had to say about this in their article, 21 Things ‘They’ Don’t Want You to Know.
The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Aviation Administration have each recommended that airlines not allow passengers to use cell phones during commercial flights. The FAA fears that the RF signal emitted by devices using the 800MHz spectrum band might interfere with the navigation systems of the plane, specifically GPS instrumentation. Yet there is no documented case of an air accident or serious malfunction caused by a cell phone’s interfering with a plane’s navigation system.
Read the rest of the article here.
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