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Cell Phone in Bathroom Forces Emergency Landing

Passenger mistakes charging phone for bomb

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 17, 2012 12:25 AM CDT

(Newser) – "Don't charge your phone in the bathroom's shaver socket" may become a standard airline warning after an emergency landing yesterday. A Delta Air Lines flight from Istanbul to New York City landed in Dublin after one passenger left his phone—with its charger wrapped around it—in one of the plane's bathrooms, and another flier reported it might be a bomb, CBS reports. Irish police officers boarded the plane, determined there was no threat, and asked any passenger missing his phone to come forward. The aircraft was refueled and allowed to continue its journey.

The flight was carrying 11 crew and 208 passengers, one of whom is now presumably very embarrassed.
The flight was carrying 11 crew and 208 passengers, one of whom is now presumably very embarrassed.   (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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BoRainier
Apr 17, 2012 9:38 AM CDT
They don't mention if they fine or charge the passenger for plugging the phone in the bathroom outlet, I guess may have look odd/scary tho see the small device wrapped in wire plugged to the wall.
Fondue
Apr 17, 2012 7:01 AM CDT
If the phrase "the terrorists have already won" doesn't apply here, I don't know what else would.
HarryBeaver
Apr 17, 2012 6:37 AM CDT
The Turkish crew did not understand the idiomatic, "that phone is da bomb!"
 

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