mannej
Senior Member
- Joined
- Mar 16, 2009
- Posts
- 9,915
Sorry to be a pain, but can you quote where you got this info from, and what crash you are referring to? It may be one that I have not come across yet.It is possible that SMSing caused a plane to crash in Switzerland, the plane made two unexpected course changes leading to a crash that were linked to SMS transmission times sent by a PAX. However, it is likely for most low power devices (NC headphones for example) that it's irrelevant, but radio transmitters (like mobile phones) are definately a hazard.
Aircraft instrumentation systems are supposed to be insulated against inteference, but the safety mantra is such that in cause that interference does occur anyway, switch of radio transmitters.
BTW welcome to AFF CthulhuDreams