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United flight forced to turn around because of a Bluetooth speaker name (www.theverge.com)
submitted 5 months ago by 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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[–] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I think a simple rule of "Better safe than sorry" applies here. It is as if a robber comes with a plastic gun that looks like a real one. Nobody wants to figure out if it is real or not.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    This resembled the actual thing less than finger guns resemble the real ones.

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