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Originally Posted by Titan2
Just watched a Veritasium episode on cell phones and planes and they talked about this! The thought was if it could impact an am radio it may fata up the planes radios. The reason for the airplane mode is the FCC, not the FAA, thought the cell phones in a plane would overwhelm the tower infrastructures so banned them on planes. Spoiler, they do not overwhelm the towers but they kept the ban in place.
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Some of their science and math ones always end up sucking me in. I don't typically watch that type of media, but those guys do a good job of making it interesting.