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Originally Posted by frahse
If TSA thought there was a problem, they would collect the devices before the passengers boarded.
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Then the public would raise an even bigger stink than we are seeing here, and the political pressure to act would overcome the abundance of caution culture that has made commercial flight the safest way to travel.
Why is a 3.4 ounce bottle of liquid OK when a 3.5 ounce bottle is disallowed? And why isn't every borderline sized bottle accurately sized? It's all a judgment call where you try to reduce the chances of an extremely unlikely risk coming to fruition without slowing down air travel to the point where hardly anyone would fly. The effort to reduce the amount of unnecessary radio traffic inside the aircraft is a similar borderline judgment call.
Is there a remote possibility that the RF shielding on a aircraft could experience a partial failure? If so, they should keep the current rule. If that's utterly impossible, they should lift the rule. Up to now, there has been a legitimate scientific difference of opinion on this question. Probably they will lift the rule eventually, and I hope it's not because of public pressure.