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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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[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago

Best case, inconvenience. Worst case, death. Being stuck in a metal tube kilometres above the earth I’m going to lean towards caution.

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