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Re:Sen. McCaskill to FAA Chief: Fix Electronic Device Rules ... by Goronmon on Thursday December 13, 2012 @10:03AM (#4915933)
First of all, how do you know phones are the cause of this?

And secondly, if this is true, then how come people are even allowed to board flights without their persons and bags being searched for electronics that are turned on? I've flown cross country while forgetting to turn off the phone in my pocket. If it's that dangerous, why am I allowed to do that?

Re:Sen. McCaskill to FAA Chief: Fix Electronic Device Rules ... by omegant on Thursday December 13, 2012 @10:32AM (#4916073)
Well as far as I know you are not allowed. But thankfully it is not enforced, if your phone is not visible nobody is not going to tell you anything. That doesn´t meen that somebody at the cockpit keeps trying to reset a computer with no results. We don´t know phones are the cause, there is no way to know that unless you analyze all the signals of all the data busses and check what is going on. Of course not all the malfunctions are due to the phones, but we have enough of them to tell you that phones have something to do with some specific failures we experience. How much? nobody knows.