iPad use on plane lands don in court

By Willis Oketch

MOMBASA; KENYA: A University of Nairobi lecturer Peter Wasamba was charged in a Mombasa court with endangering the safety of an aircraft.

Prof Wasanga was accused of using an iPad aboard a Mombasa bound plane. The professor was charged in Mombasa on Friday evening moments after disembarking from Kenya Airways plane KQ602 and was released on a Sh100,000 bond with a similar surety. No sooner had Wasamba stepped on the tarmac at the Moi International Airport in Mombasa than he was whisked away by airport police to the cells for onward transmission to courts. Reports show the pilot conveyed a message of the alleged breach to the control tower at the airport before landing, prompting police to pounce on the bewildered professor.

In court, police said he left an electronic device (the iPad) on while aboard a Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi to Mombasa.

The charge sheets says he refused to switch off the iPad after being instructed to do so by the captain as the plane took off from Nairobi. His trial will start on February 15.

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