You are clearly making assumptions, which leads to your faulty logic.

This issue is tested on nearly every flight in the world every day. I would venture to say that somewhere between 2-10% of passengers ignore this rule for cell phones, and almost 80-90% of people using computers will most likely fail to turn off their Wi-fi connection when using their computers in-flight. Since the introduction of cell phone more than 20 years ago this issue has been tested 100's of millions of times. Yet there is not one single crash linked to this issue.

So, 100's of millions of examples, no crashes. Seems well tested to me.


I don't know about anyone else, but I am not whining about this rule, I just ignore it, like many many others. There is no documented negative effect on me as a passenger, so why bother, unless you are one of those anal types that rely on "But, but, it's the RULE!!". Follow it if you wish, but I can guarantee that if I am ever a passenger on your flight my cell phone will be on and we will most assuredly land at the correct airport, maintain communications with the ground and not crash.