With so many other factors that contributed to the implosion in a big way, this detail seems insignificant. It was a cramped vessel, wireless may have been saf

With so many other factors that contributed to the implosion in a big way, this detail seems insignificant. It was a cramped vessel, wireless may have been safer because nobody could yank a cable out, or get twisted up in a cable. It was probably communicating wirelessly over a couple of feet or less in a RF interference free environment.