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Personal Electronics May Indeed Disrupt Avionics

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 9, 2011 @05:38AM from the so-we'll-sell-you-wifi-service dept.

mattrwilliams writes "There is a growing body of anecdotal evidence that points to personal electronics being a real issue on board planes. Dave Carson of Boeing, the co-chair of a federal advisory committee that investigated the problem of electronic interference from portable devices, says that PEDs radiate signals that can hit and disrupt highly sensitive electronic sensors hidden in the plane's passenger area, including those for an instrument landing system used in bad weather."

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this is totally impossible by Anonymous Coward · 2011-06-09 05:47 · Score: 5, Funny

I was told by people on the internet that this cannot possibly happen, so this expert from an actual aircraft manufacturer must be wrong.
Re:Easy Solution by roman_mir · 2011-06-09 05:50 · Score: 4, Funny

yeah, if applied directly over certain passengers.

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Re:C'mon... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-06-09 05:58 · Score: 5, Funny

Correction. A bolt of lightning is only 1.21 GW.