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title: Internet on flights
date: "2002-12-09T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1006
description: I discovered that airlines restrict laptop use during takeoff and landing primarily because they become dangerous projectiles during turbulence, rather than due to electrical interference. This safety explanation is much more logical than the common interference myth.
keywords: [aviation safety, laptop regulations, turbulence, electronic interference, flight safety, projectile hazards]
---

Insight from a NY Times article on how the [Internet can be accessed from flights](http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/08/travel/08rep.html): the reason you shouldn't use a laptop on a flight during take-off and landing is not because of electrical interference; it is that the laptop could be a dangerous loose flying object in case of turbulence. Now, that makes more sense.