Monday, July 1, 2013

Using Phones After Your Plane Lands Safely & Starts Taxiing?

Passengers use their phone on landing for a good reason, to check the driver of the hire car meeting them knows the passengers are arriving on time, or early, or have arrived despite being late.
The main cited reason for  
another reason is that you need to be alert to hear vital announcements all the time you are on a plane including when taxiing -supposing you hit an object and need to evacuate. Couldn't happen? Well it did. A British Airtours 737 caught fire at Manchester killing 54 at the airport and one more later died in hospital.
Here's a comment from a recent article:
On the 22 August 1985 a British Airtours 737 caught fire on the tarmac at Manchester killing 54 on site, 1 subsequently in hospital (53 passengers, 2 crew). So emergency announcements need to be heard. Mobile phones and personal headphones are definitely NOT a good idea during take-off, landing and taxiing.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2352117/As-BA-relaxes-phones-cabin--Why-experts-STILL-dont-know-using-mobile-make-plane-crash.html#ixzz2Xm4WDIIy
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