Originally Posted by
MacLaren1
the professional pilots here have to sit at the sharp end... how comfortable (or otherwise) does the thought of a new type of bomb in a laptop ( or whatever) make them feel?
Yes, there is only a slight chance of it disrupting an individual flight but, as someone once said... "for each flight, it's 50-50 - it either will, or it won't..."
"Someone" needs a lesson in statistics. If for each flight it's 50-50, then after you've flown 1,000 sectors you'd expect "it" to have happened around 500 times. It hasn't, has it?
Since there are about 24,000 flights
every day within the US with zero bombs going off, and two to three thousand
every day across the Atlantic also with zero bombs going off (in recent years), suggesting that it's 50-50 seems silly.