Originally Posted by highway80west

I suspect that the terrorists would have taken action to prevent onboard phone usage in the seats, so if any passenger wanted to use the cell phone in situations like that, nothing would have prevented the passenger from doing that. It was a desperate situation.

One passenger inside one of the planes that flew into the WTC building did talk on her cell phone, describing what was happening. She described where she was, and saw that she was back in NYC as the plane headed into the direction of the WTC building.

A passenger on the plane that crashed into the fields in Pennsylvania talked on her cell phone, saying that plane was being hijacked. I have no doubt that the persons used their cell phones, since the terrorists who commandered the plane, didn't care what else was happening. The flight attendants were powerless to do anything else, except hoping that God can help them.