A Southwest Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Hawaii had to make an unscheduled stop after passengers received bomb threats via AirDrop.
Apple's AirDrop feature uses short-range communication technologies like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to find people nearby with an iPhone and shares files with them. Bluetooth Low Energy is used to find compatible handsets open to receiving files from other iPhone users and Wi-Fi is used to transmit them. Android users have a similar feature on their phones called Nearby Share.
You might recall that last September someone on a Southwest Airlines plane was using AirDrop to send explicit images to other passengers with an iPhone onboard the aircraft. The pilot, though, wasn't having any of it andif the rogue passenger continued to disseminate photos of naked people. As far as we know, the plane did make it to Cabo so we assume that the NSFW images stopped being broadcast on AirDrop.
The kind of people who would use AirDrop to disrupt a flight are unfortunately still around and they have raised the stakes. According to the, a Southwest Airlines flight last Monday that was heading to Hawaii from Las Vegas had to be diverted and made an unscheduled landing in Oakland, California. The reason why Flight 3316 was forced to land in Oakland was because some passengers received an image via AirDrop suggesting that there was a bomb on the plane.
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