> > A quick rummage around Google didn't turn up the flight 
> data recorder 
> > info, but that's not too unsurprising.  It might be out 
> there somewhere.
> >
> > Since the plane was equipped with GTE airfones, the cellphone 
> > works/doesn't work question is a moot point.
> >
> >   
> Well, it's still valid if the actual call(s) were claimed to 
> have been made on cellphones, not airfones.......


True, but 'he called me from the plane' implies neither airfone or cell.
How would the receiver know?  Easy enough to check from the telephone
records.  Which happened.

It seem all of those in business class made calls (airfones) and some of the
rest used cell phones.

Both worked.

The 'conspiracy' is that no calls were made from the plane.  A pretty lame
one that doesn't have any follow-up (ok, then what?), but anyway.

Anyone got a flight planned shortly & feels like putting it to the test?
Can cell phone calls be make 10km in the air?  I can't see why not.

As for the 'building don't fall down like that claim', how many 47-story
building collapses have there been?  After a 7 hour fire?  How many
110-story buildings have had planes smack into them?

Just because the professor stating the question is a smart guy doesn't mean
he's not nuts.  Linus Pauling was a Nobel-prize winning smart guy, and he
turned into an orange flavoured froot loop.

Look like the Mythbusters are going to have to torch a 47-story building and
see what happens.

Tony

-- 
http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist