On a Phone, Interfering With Flight Safety - Christine Negroni
Before deciding whether to allow passengers to use phones before takeoff, several airlines conducted ground tests to see if cellphones would interfere with systems. At American Airlines, people dialed cellphones from out-of-service planes parked at various airports. “They found no interaction with the aircraft instruments on any aircraft type,” said Tim Smith, a spokesman for American. As a result, the airline like most others, decided to permit the use of phones at the gate before departure and after landing.
I love it. The only actual study cited in an article about the inherent danger of electronic devices being used on airplanes shows zero — ZERO — impact on any avionics on any aircraft tested. But that won’t stop all the stupidity.
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