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Are cellphones and laptops really dangerous to flight?
  • iPod Restrictions?

    An interesting comment about restrictions on iPods (and other headphones) - it's just so you can hear instructions? Why are flight attendants so snippy about it, then? I've had a flight attendant literally grab me, rip the headphones out of my ears and scream at me for using my iPod before the "official announcement" - even though we'd been in the air for 20 minutes and were flying comfortably - but because the "fasten seat belt sign" hadn't been turned off yet, I was "endangering the plane".

    (Agree with you totally on the cell phones, though.)