Episode
MythBusters: Cell Phones on Planes
Overview
If you fill a normal raft with helium can you fly? Tory and Kari tackle a conspiracy theory familiar to many frequent flyers. Can your cell phone interfere with a plane's instruments?
Details
- Series
- MythBusters
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 6
- Air date
- 2006-03-15
Episode context
Cell Phones on Planes is Episode 6 in Season 4 of MythBusters. It aired on 2006-03-15.
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