Originally Posted by
greggwiggins
The article also cites anecdotal evidence from NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) database:
"In one telling incident, a flight crew stated that a 30-degree navigation error was immediately corrected after a passenger turned off a DVD player and that the error reoccurred when the curious crew asked the passenger to switch the player on again. ..."
I hope that the specific navigation device was recalled to fix the problem. Otherwise I'd say that at least one of the following statements is true:
- The reported error was not a safety issue, or not a real error.
- The manufacturer and licensing agencies were negligent in their duties.