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Old 16th May 2005 | 19:21
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northwing
 
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Your little pink body would be in no danger whatsoever. The danger zone around the transmitter would be measured in metres and you would be nothing like that close in an aircraft, and if you were it wouldn't be for long enough to matter. The risk is that electronic equipment on board might malfunction. Autopilot or autostabiliser runaway is a distinct possibility. Nav equipment might give false and misleading indications. If you have electronic engine controls they can malfunction. A Phantom crew had a double engine wind-down flying past a big mast once - fortunately the RPM came back up as they went past but it must have grabbed their attention.

Civil aircraft don't get half the attention that military ones do in respect of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), probably because electromagnetically incompatible bombs are not a good idea. Basically airliners are made of boxes which have demonstrated some hardness on the bench but that is about all. The military jets get put into a specially constructed zone and zapped with great bolts of wiggly amps of all frequencies known to man.
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