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Old 01-08-2013, 09:55 PM   #53
Edward M. Grant
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Originally Posted by Anabana View Post
Naive on my part, perhaps, but it seems perfectly reasonable to me that today's electronics could interfere with 'yesterday's' airplanes.
Modern electronics is designed not to interfere with anything. Avionics is designed not to be interfered with. I've only worked on military avionics, not civil, but the idea that an iPad or cell-phone could interfere with the hardware I worked on just makes me laugh.

Perhaps something actively transmitting like a cell phone could interfere with a radio, but it would have to be pretty badly designed to put out that much power on a frequency well away from where it's supposed to be transmitting.

The only possibility I can really see is someone actively broadcasting at high power to try to make it crash, but then they're hardly going to turn it off just because the cabin crew tell them to.
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