-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [IP] Maybe the cause is bad desigb of aircraft cell phones and electronic devices are a risk to planes] Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:55:53 -0500 From: Mary Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Once, long ago, I was told by a TWA flight attendant (I said it was long ago ...) that the *real* reason they wanted electronic devices off during takeoff and landing was so passengers wouldn't be wearing headsets that prevented them from hearing flight attendants' instructions, and also so the devices themselves wouldn't be flying around the cabin in case of rough flying or landing. Mary On 3/5/06, Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: RE: [IP] more on Maybe cell phones and electronic devices are a > risk to planes > Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 16:31:32 -0500 > From: Bob Frankston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CC: 'Dewayne Hendricks' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I couldn't resist send a note to Spectrum: > > - - - > > I'm amazed that the report doesn't cite the aircraft designers for > incompetence. If aircraft is so vulnerable to even the weakest signals in > an RF-laden world then they are too dangerous to fly. Is a PDA more > dangerous than megawatt transmitters on the ground as plans are coming in > for a landing? > > The devices cited are part of our basic technical infrastructure. The > effort to find reasons to blame them for problems seems to have a > moralistic agenda. If there are problems then they must be addressed by > those most at risks - the aircraft. Why are they so vulnerable? If they > are > then we should ground the complete fleet until they are able to operate in > today's world. > > - - - > > Long ago Dewayne Hendricks commented that if planes were so vulnerable > then > they should be fixed. > > Why so much attention to what I consider moral threats rather than real > threats that do exist? > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Farber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 09:17 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [IP] more on Maybe cell phones and electronic devices are a risk > to planes > > > > Study is in the March issue of IEEE Spectrum. > > > > http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/mar06/3069 > > > > ------------------------------------- > > You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To manage your subscription, go to > > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip > > > > Archives at: > http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ > > ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as [email protected] To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
