Cell Phone Forces Pilot To Abort Flight

Written by Adam Gosling

Tuesday, 15 August 2006

A British Airways jet travelling from London to New York has been forced to turn back an hour into its flight when an unclaimed mobile phone started ringing. According to reports, the pilot decided to return to London when the phone started ringing and nobody owned up to bringing it on board. Following the discovery of a plot to blow up passenger jets on route between London and the United States was uncovered late last week all electronic items have been banned form airline planes. Since nobody was willing to own up to smuggling the thing on board, the pilot decided to turn back rather than continue the flight. A British Airways spokesperson said it was possible, but unlikely the phone was left on board after an earlier flight. If somebody had owned up to brining the phone on board the flight probably would have continued, but presumably the culprit didn't want to admit to breaking the no phone rules. The flight resumed after security checks and arrived in New York seven hours late. Related news items The Poor Man's Palm -02/10/2007 Armani, Prada, Labels Get Mobile -26/09/2007 Next-Gen 3G RAZR DownUnder -24/09/2007 Nokia E51: Smarter Than It Looks -19/09/2007 New Pearl Colours Coming -18/09/2007 Newer news items Only 6,000? Panasonic Must Have Recall Envy -06/09/2006 Unprotected Phones Abandoned At Airports -03/09/2006 Discarded Handhelds Reveal Secrets -30/08/2006 Apple Follows Dell To Replace Sony Batteries -24/08/2006 Naughty Dell Notebooks Powerless On Qantas -23/08/2006 Older news items Dell To Recall Exploding Batteries -14/08/2006 3 Teams With AppSense For More Affordable Security -09/08/2006 Oh, Okay. Another Dell Explosion Story -04/08/2006 Patch Your Centrino Device Drivers -02/08/2006 Laptop Battery Drama Lives On - In Mid-Air -13/07/2006 Tag This Now: