Wikipedia is not a good source, neither is the NASA study, as the ASRS system is nothing more than the personal beliefs of pilots reported to the system. There is no actual evidence that any of those reports is accurate. Some pilots use the ASRS system to cover mistakes. Say a pilot flies in the wrong direction by 6 degrees. He corrects his error, and to avoid potential FAA problems he files an ASRS report blaming a cell phone. This report then ends up in the NASA "study" of cell phone problems.


Within a few years we will all be allowed to use cell phones in the air. There is no possible way to test all of the possible variations of different electronic equipment, but they will allow cell phone use anyway. As has been stated here before, on any given flight there are probably 10-20 cell phones on and transmitting during the entire flight. Yet there has not been one verified report of a crash, not one verified report of a navigational error that ended up with the airplane at the wrong airport, not one verified report of an injury or death related to the use PED's.