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Originally Posted by auspex
Seems backward to me. The rules were implemented without valid reason or adequate study, simply because somebody thought there was a minor possibility that something could happen.
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Seems to me that it's fair enough to ban it while the risk is unknown.
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So anecdote and uneducated opinion were enough to create bureaucracy, but not to remove it.
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I'm not so sure the opinion that it wasn't possible to be sure there was no risk was all that uneducated, but in any case requiring a higher standard of evidence to allow something than otherwise seems fair enough.
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Simple common sense (and fear of liability) should have had the aircraft manufacturers do the science long ago: and then ensured that no passenger electronics could interfere with the aircraft systems, precisely because there will always be those who don't turn them off.
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Many aircraft flying today were designed when the current level of personal electronic device usage was undreamt of.
/JB