An Austin businessman has been charged fees for refusing to switch off his mobile phone on aircraft. Joe David Jones was on a flight from Austin to Dallas Love Field on Monday when this accident occurred.
Trabber News reports that the Dallas police cited Jones with the Class C misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $500.
An Austin businessman was charged with disorderly conduct after he allegedly refused to stop using his mobile phone on a flight Monday from Austin to Dallas Love Field. Dallas police met the plane after the pilot radioed ahead to the Love Field tower. They cited Joe David Jones, 50, president of an Austin-based environmental start-up company called Skyonic Corp., with the Class C misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $500.
Thanks to GADLING, we see the other side of the story. As Jones’s spokesman explained, Jones had received a phone call saying that his father’s heart had stopped beating, so he was wildly trying to contact the hospital.
Given the life and death situation, he felt it necessary to make the phone calls.
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