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Originally Posted by BWinmill
But planes falling out of the sky was never really an issue. The reliability of aviation communications (and perhaps instrumentation) was an issue. Electronics don't have a direct impact upon aerodynamics after all, just the data available to pilots.
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Not true. Most modern aircraft have so-called "fly by wire" control systems, in which the flight controls do not directly operate the ailerons, elevators, etc, but instead tell a computer to do so.
Of course it's vanishingly unlikely that a hand-held electronic device could affect such systems, but it's completely wrong to claim that "Electronics don't have a direct impact upon aerodynamics"; they assuredly do.