The Mathematical Impossibility
Note: The communications suites commonly used on board private aircraft do not use the same conventional cellphone technology, as purported to have been used onboard Flight 93.
The official report states that regular cellphones were used, as later confirmed by the passengers’ cellphone bills. A little homework on the mathematics & nature of cellphone networks verifies the total impossibility of making regular cellphone calls at any sort of altitude in a commercial aircraft.
Here’s why:
Cellphone networks operate with each cell covering about 10 square miles (26 square kilometers), with the transmitter in the centre of the cell. Using the formula: Area = pi r squared:
10 miles = 3.14 x (r x r) , therefore giving a radius of approximately 1.784 miles. In other words, the range of the transmitter is therefore slightly greater than 1.784 miles. To round it up, let’s call it 2 miles for the sake of arguement.
There are 5,280 feet in a mile, therefore 2 miles = 10,560 feet. Since no …