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United flight forced to turn around because of a Bluetooth speaker name (www.theverge.com)

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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/47299437

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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[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

okay but, how does it make sense to fly during a longer period if you know that you're transporting a bomb? (i know I shouldn't try to make any sense out of this but still...)

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What do you mean? It's an 8 hour flight to mallorca from NY. 2<8

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

ah... i dont know why I understood that they reached there destination before....