Originally Posted by
Joe_K
Also, confining devices to the hold only makes sense if the perceived threat is not from an explosive in the classical sense, but instead from a method of using the devices as they are, and somehow tamper with them in flight.
I still think that the only way a cabin ban works is if the threat is in using the device somehow to affect the controls of the aircraft. (By which I would also include interfering with communications or radar.) I mean, why on earth would you take what you fear could possibly be a bomb and pack it amidst a bunch of highly flammable batteries, in a place where you cannot get at any resultant fire to put it out? Would it not make more sense to have the possibly suspect piece of electronics in the cabin, where fellow passengers would notice if you started doing something odd like prying your computer apart? And where if there was a fire or explosion, flames could be doused, etc?