Ballymena Banter Banjaxes Boeings

by kronoc

From The Register:

An Ulster used car dealer has had his dodgy cordless phone confiscated after airline pilots were entertained by “Arthur Daley-style banter about makes and prices of used cars”, The Daily Mirror reports.

Skyjockeys cruising at 25,000 feet through the Dean Cross air traffic sector – extending from Manchester to central Scotland – had been picking up “snippets of conversation” since last year, leading to concerns that haggling over used Ford Mondeos might “block out vital instructions from controllers on the ground”.

[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/28/dodgy_cordless_phone/]