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To: Math Junkie who wrote (20996)	3/9/2002 6:50:09 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Nicely answered, Richard. More of the "whole cloth" of the argument, regarding the use of cell phones on the hijacked planes: Why are hijackers letting anyone on the planes make cell phone calls to people on the ground? Because they could not prevent it. They only had enough men to take the plane and herd together the passengers (they failed even at that on Flight 93), not enough to take away phones. Can you remember any other hijacked airplane incident where people were making cell phone calls? We've all heard of four such incidents. The previous incidents I remember are from the seventies; no one had cell phones. Can you easily make cell phone calls from a plane that is 35,000 feet high and hundreds of miles away from your cell phone provider? Yes, very easily. It is generally forbidden on the pretext that it might interfere with the plane. The New York Times ran an article a while back pointing out that there is no evidence for this, but good evidence that the phone companies want to prevent usage from jets, as a signal that high and moving at jet speeds tends to disrupt cell traffic and plays havoc with billing programs.