Just to reflect on the ice theory. Last week I personally experienced something totally unrelated to this incident but then perhaps not.
While extracting some money from an ATM (automatic teller machine) my mobile phone was activated as someone made a call. At that exact moment I was logged into the machine and had punched in the first of 2 digits for the amount I wanted to extract (40 euro's) when the machine went berzerk. I never got to punching in the second digit or confirm the amount by pushing the "ok" button as it spontaneously returned my card and released 100 euro's.
I finished the call and then, confused, I made another extraction with the phone off and the ATM performed as advertised in a normal way.
The incident is now under investigation.
This brings me back to BA38 and how perhaps a one in a zillion chance of EMI/HIRF could have ended its carreer prematurely.
Green-dot