thruz1 --

I saw both towers fall. I felt the shockwave, and smelled the ash. I knew two pax on AA #11, one of whom was 7 months pregnant. I still have 10+ friends who worked in the WTC and are missing.

I have no problem with this thread. I do not find it at all out of place, insensitive, or callous.

I do have a problem with the cell phone ban on airplanes because Boeing and Airbus conducted joint tests 2 years ago where planes had the equivalent of 30,000 simultaneous cell phone signals being generated inside, and there was zero impact on the plane electronics. The fact that the airlines continue to say that this is the reason for the ban reduces their credibility, which hurts them in other ways.

If they instead announced that cell phone usage was prohibited because the FCC has restricted use because of the cell system design, I would be just fine.

But they don't. They give us misinformation.

And, since you brought it up, the knife and corkscrew restriction is absurd. The way it's being implimented would not have prevented the awful acts of Tuesday that all of us will remember for our entire lives.