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Originally Posted by cmdahler
Wow, did you even bother to read this thread before writing this?
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A story from flight crew like
"We were flying the plane. Suddenly the autopilot started malfunctioning. We found some passenger had his phone switched on. We asked him to switch it off. The autopilot was restored. So the cell phone must have been causing the problem."
is not convincing. At a minimum such a story needs to go like this
"We were flying the plane. Suddenly the autopilot started malfunctioning. We found some passenger had his phone switched on. We asked him to switch it off. The autopilot was restored. Since we were flying in an empty sky at 30K feet and there was no real danger from a malfunctioning autopilot, to double check we asked the passenger to switch on the phone again. The autopilot malfunctioned again and when we the passenger switched it off, it was restored."
And to be really convincing, a regulatory body needs to carry out a few thousand flights with a few hundred cell phones switched on in each flight, at random locations on the plane, and perform the above procedure each time a malfunction happens and record the percentage of flights in which a malfunction happened.
Now that would be convincing to someone used to scientific methodology.