Cell Phone Calls From Airliners Now Possible with New Technology

Here's an interesting article I've not seen referred to in this discussion. Paragraph three is the most relevant. Interesting that calls couldn't be made from passenger cell phones prior to this technology.


Miracles and Wonders

Last week, USA Today reported a joint effort between Qualcomm and American Airlines' to allow passengers to make cellphone calls from aircraft in flight. According to the story, the satellite-based system employs a "Pico cell" to act as a small cellular tower.

"It worked great," gushed Monte Ford, American Airline's chief information officer. "I called the office. I called my wife. I called a friend in Paris. They all heard me great, and I could hear them loud and clear."

Before this new "Pico cell," it was nigh on impossible to make a call from a passenger aircraft in flight. Connection is impossible at altitudes over 8000 feet or speeds in excess of 230 mph.

http://www.nypress.com/17/30/news%26columns/AlanCabal.cfm

I've done before, just to see if it was possible

Time-travellers? ;-)

Lovely....

http://www.oilempire.us/bogus.html

"cellphones can't be used in airplanes"

The articles on the web that discuss cellphones in planes vary in their opinions about the feasibility of this. An experiment to replicate these claims would need to know the exact altitudes and phone companies and be in the same locations -- which is probably impossible to do.

The implication is that the calls that WERE made were (1) not made from an Airphone (which clearly DO work), and (2) were military psyop campaigns to spread the myth of the cellphone calls about the hijackers.

While it is certainly true that fake audio and video is much easier to make these days, this is probably the meme most calculated to alienate "9/11 researchers" from the family members. It is very unlikely that a spouse would not know they were having a phone conversation with their partner, and the extra complication to the operation this would require makes this theory one of the least credible. There is enough provable evidence of official complicity without claiming that 9/11 family members really didn't talk with their loved ones on the phone.