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Minute ago, it's real important that we establish the timeline, the communications timeline versus the acars timeline, make sure they match up and make sure that's accurate information before we start to rule out certain possibilities. meanwhile, mr. beatty made a comment a minute ago that i almost had to jump in. the reason a cell phone doesn't work from an airplane isn't because it's being jammed by a signal from a foreign country, it's because you're not near a cell tower. a cell phone just won't work from an airplane above a certain altitude and you're far enough from land. it's really tha...

The reason a cell phone doesn't work from an airplane isn't because it's being jammed by a signal from a foreign country, it's because you're not near a cell tower. a cell phone just won't work from an airplane above a certain altitude and you're far enough from land. it's really that simple. certain airlines on their long-haul fleets have installed technology that does allow cell calling by collecting the signal and beaming it up via satellite and then back down to the ground or down to the ground through radio frequencies. i don't know if malaysia airlines has that equipment on their 777s, w...