This calendar week , one Virgin America flight was delayed and anotherwas reportedly canceledafter gang extremity discovered a wi - fi hotspot named “ Samsung Galaxy Note 7 ” mid - flight of steps . finally , however , no promissory note 7 was find on the plane , as the electronic connection belonged to another equipment key to resemblethe banned smartphone .
According to one passenger , the trouble began when crew appendage on a flight from San Francisco to Boston tried to recuperate the smartphone associate with a internet named “ Samsung Galaxy Note7_1097 ” and no one came onward .
Open my laptop on the plane and notice a Galaxy Note 7 wireless local area connection hotspothttps://t.co/y1csn9gOsZpic.twitter.com/9Z5IJULuPs
— Lucas Wojciechowski ( @lucaswoj)December 20 , 2016
“ This is n’t a joke , ” said the captain , according to rider Lucas Wojciechowski . “ We ’re going to turn on the lightness and search everyone ’s bag until we find it ”
Eventually , attendants were able to settle the generator of the internet , but only after the pilot threatened to divert the flight from its original destination in Boston to Wyoming .
“ Ladies and gentlemen , we found the equipment , ” said the captain . “ Luckily only the name of the machine was change to ‘ Galaxy Note 7′. It was not a GN7 . ”
After the check plane set down , iMore editor Serenity Caldwell observed “ a immense line of people ” attempt to fix their itineraries due to the cancelation of the following flight . Staff gave her a interchangeable story .
" The plane was mid - trajectory when an attendant noticed a wifi hot spot . A Galaxy Note 7 Wifi hot spot . " Everyone else take in a horror-struck face .
— Serenity Caldwell ( @settern)December 20 , 2016
“ I speak to the co-occurrence , and the flight was n’t amuse , just late , ” publish Saldwell on Twitter . “ [ C]ulprit was n’t a Galaxy Note 7 , but a bogus SSID . ”
Wojciechowski later told the BBC he does n’t think the passenger with the ill - name meshwork was penalise , but his or her mistake service as a cautionary taradiddle to others : When it comes to planes ( and other people ’s travel plans ) , detonate phones are no joke .
[ The Verge ]
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