What is unsafe?
The consept of the aeronautical industry is to document airworthiness. There are simply too many combinations of aircraft models, phone models (and places to put them inside the aircraft) to make it possible to prove they do not interfere with systems. Why is it so hard to accept this fact?
To approve a fixed mobile phone installation is a simple matter. A device which switches the phone off at a given altitude might have to be included.
A Norwegian airline, Widerøe, have contacted Bombardier to in order to avoid mobile phones trigging smoke detectors in the cargo bay of the Dash-8-100.
Last edited by Broadcast Control; 11th Apr 2006 at 20:20.