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From: John R Walliker <jrwalliker@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Exploding pagers
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:37:14 +0100
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On 20/09/2024 06:15, Bill Sloman wrote:
> On 20/09/2024 7:07 am, john larkin wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:26:23 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
>> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:48:01 -0400, bitrex wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 9/18/2024 4:01 PM, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote:
>>>>> Am 18.09.24 um 20:08 schrieb john larkin:
>>>>>> On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:30:23 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
>>>>>> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>> Thank god one of them didn't go off in an airliner with Europeans on 
>>> board
>>> at the time. That could so easily have happened. Hopefully the airlines'
>>> explosive sniffers would have detected them. If they cannot, they'll 
>>> have
>>> to do something *quick* to improve security measures to ensure it can't
>>> happen going forward.
>>
>> It was probably detonated by some special message, and wouldn't have
>> worked on a plane.
> 
> Planes are Faraday cages. These days they do use WiFi inside the 
> aircraft to give people access to the Web, but pagers rely on older 
> technology.

Not really. They have windows.  The doors are not electrically connected
to the fuselage all the way round so they act as slot antennas.
Mobile phones work fine inside planes.

John