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United flight forced to turn around because of a Bluetooth speaker name (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 months ago by resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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United flight 236 from Newark to Palma de Mallorca on Saturday night was forced to turn around just an hour after takeoff due to security concerns around a Bluetooth signal. Multiple Redditors claimed to be on the flight and reported that the crew repeatedly requested passengers to turn off their Bluetooth. According to one poster, […]

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[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 13 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Poor chap. Chances are the person was flying economy. No way that person can give enough to recoup even the lawyer fees for the airline

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago

Yep. They might still try it to punish them/set an example. They're not getting enough out of it to be worth it though, so odds are nothing happens.

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