Commentary: In China, airplane mode isn’t acceptable during flights. As more than one passenger recently discovered.
This doesn’t go down well on a Chinese plane.
The science of whether cell phones affect airplane navigation systems seems muddy at best .
Most people, though, have become used to setting their phones to airplane mode.
In China, though, things are a little different. As China.org reports , three different passengers on flights between January 5 and February 6 were arrested for using their phones on planes.
A woman named Zhang allegedly refused to turn off her phone during take-off and actually made calls during a flight.
