Imagine yourself in the following situation: you’re quietly using your notebook during a flight when you note a point of access of WiFi with the name "Samsung Galaxy Note 7" – yes, exactly the name of that instrument that has gone through a massive recall, and was prohibited in aircraft by enormous risks to ignite spontaneously.
it Seems a bad situation to be some hundreds of metres from the ground? For this is that some passengers for a trip to Virgin America would have supposedly been a few days ago, during a flight 358 from San Francisco to Boston.
The bizarre case was reported via Twitter by Luke Wojciechowski, and would have started exactly as described above. When you open your computer, Luke noticed a hotspot with a name that is very worrisome and it decided to contact the flight crew.
"I Open my laptop on the plane and I noticed a WiFi access point of the Galaxy Note 7"
once the instrument presented a huge risk to the safety of all, the team of the flight soon went on to make ads in search of the culprit. First, with simple requests; then, having to divert the flight to rummage through the luggage of those passengers in search of the supposed source of the access point.
"about an hour flight there is an announcement 'If someone has a Galaxy Note 7, please press your call button"
"15 minutes later 'This is not a joke. We’ll turn on the lights' (11 night) 'and rummage through the bags of everyone until we found it"
"15 minutes later ” This is the captain speaking…'"
"Apparently the plane will have to be diverted and combed through if no one will confess soon"
"'I do not know if you already been diverted at 3 in the morning… Let me tell you, it’s terrible. There is nothing open in the terminal. Nothing.'"
Fortunately, it seems that all would end well. This is because, some time later, the team discovered the culprit behind it all – and it wasn’t a Galaxy Note 7, but only a device that it had used the name of the infamous phablet from Samsung such as the name of your access point.
"'Ladies and gentlemen, we found the device. Luckily, only the device name had been changed to 'Galaxy Note 7'. It was not a GN7.'"
Why is the person causing all of these problems would have done this? We do not know, because the culprit would not have been identified. As noted by some people, however, this can be not only a din with passengers, but only a little problem that can happen if you switch devices and export your preferences in the Note 7 to the new device.
"The person could not have done this. I went from a Note7 for a S7 and the access point is still calling Note7 on my S7."
it Seems overkill for something that, in the end, proved to be only a "just kidding"? Because the Virgin America thinks differently. In a statement about the case to the site Meter, the company stated that, "when our Team-Mates in Flight, they see evidence of potential for that device to the board, they take this seriously."
"in This case, there was no such device – the safety of passengers and crew was never in question," said a spokeswoman for Virgin America. "No flight was cancelled or delayed as a result", he continued.
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