I have never been able to find any technical source which explains in simple terms why mobile phones have to be turned off on airplanes taking off or landing.
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There is no way in this troubled world that the signal from my phone could have anything near the danger to a plane’s controls which are coming from the hundreds of mobile phone towers directly located in the flight paths of planes at every one of our city airports.
The mobile phone carriers make heaps of money from customers having to return missed calls from phones which were turned off unnecessarily because of an airport myth.