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Submitted: September 7, 2011 - 8:47am
Last updated: September 7, 2011 - 8:53am
Last updated: September 7, 2011 - 8:53am
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Associated Press
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El Paso, TX, United States
El Paso (TX) police arrested a Southwest Airlines passenger on a flight from Phoenix after he refused to turn off his cell phone. Southwest Airlines spokeswoman Whitney Eichinger in Dallas said the man turned his cell phone on as the flight was landing in El Paso. Eichinger says when the man was asked to turn his phone off, he did not and when the plane pulled up to the gate, El Paso authorities met the aircraft.
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