Bipartisan bill would ban airplane cellphone 'yapping'

Key Senate Democrats and Republicans have teamed up to ambush a Federal Communications Commission plan to let passengers talk on their cellphones while in flight.

“Keeping phone conversations private on commercial flights may not be enshrined in the Constitution, but it is certainly enshrined in common sense,” said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. “This legislation is about avoiding something nobody wants: nearly 2 million passengers a day, hurtling through space, trapped in 17-inch-wide seats, yapping their innermost thoughts.”