And presumably it would have worked better if you were higher, being able to
spot more towers.

That's if there were any towers.  Your cell phone won't work in 95% (#
pulled out of my rear, 99% might be better) as there aren't any towers.
It's most desert, who needs them?  Advertisements say they have >95%
coverage, and then say that's by population, not area.

How many cell towers were in range of Flight 93's path?  Say in a 25k
corridor?

Tony


> My cell phone did ring at 4000 ft in a small single engine 
> plane over Wisconsin. But I could not maintain a connection 
> long enough or well enough to actually carry on a conversation.
> 
> Mark
> 
> Tony Smith wrote:
> >>> 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
> >
> >   
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