'Emergency Location Service'/'Advanced Mobile Location' on your phone

[Ming the Merciless]

Yes, the phone needs just a quick burst of signal to work on SMS. Bouncing off a plane passing overhead for example?

Please don’t throw your phone at planes trying to land at Leeds / Bradford…

 

[ColinJ]

Please don’t throw your phone at planes trying to land at Leeds / Bradford…

I have a new phone, so I can chuck the old one at them!