Use of wireless communications on planes

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I remember landing on a 737 once, and the pilot came on the intercom immediately after landing informing passengers that the flight crew had to take manual control of some part of the landing process, due to interference from a mobile phone signal on board.

Whether this was real, or whether it was because it was because a stewardess was annoyed by some arrogant idiot blabbing on his phone during landing, I don't know.

But either way - you don't want to annoy the flight crew, or you could have lots of 'interesting customs experiences'.