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Old Oct 7, 2009, 4:08 pm
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SwissYankee
 
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Accidentally left cell phone on, connected, during 2-hour flight.

a couple of weeks ago, I was on a [undisclosed] 2-hour flight on. I made a 1-minute call to check my home voicemail just before they started boarding. I turned it off and dropped the phone in my european.

after the plane landed, I waited for my bags to come out. that when I took my phone out and was shocked to find that it was still on and connected. my voicemail at home is not setup to disconnect a call unless the calling party disconnects first. The phone showed talk time of 2 hours and 25 minutes.

I assume the only reason the phone remained connected was that it was a express flight on a turboprop plane, flying at very low altitude?

now the obvious question, what could have happened?
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