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[–] PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (16 children)

I don't buy it. Kevin wakes up after his parents are already on the plane, after they've been told to put their device in airplane mode, so they still wouldn't know until they touch down in Paris and turn their phones back on, to which everything else can be the same since they were stuck due to the weather.

He could however call the police. Only reason that wasn't possible in the movie was because the phone lines were down (despite showing Kevin ordering a pizza over the phone, ignoring the fact they specifically pointed out the phone line problem at the beginning of the film).

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Remember that they were flying first class, today they would have inflight wifi, and looking at the messages, they have blue bubbles, meaning iMessage, which works over WiFi.

So they could get in touch, the mom could message a family friend to help out, and it would have been resolved easily.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Androids RCS and most apps also work over wifi.

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