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This is a rule which is often misunderstood. The crewmember's instructions must be both legal and reasonable for a prosecution to proceed.
Otherwise, an insane crewmember could have you prosecuted for failing to follow her instructions to stab the purser (who she believes jilted her) or for not patting your head and rubbing your stomach at the same time.
I'm curious about something. Is it really a federal requirement that passengers must obey
ALL crewmember instructions? One of the Federal Aviation Regulations,
Sec. 121.571, states that passenger compliance is required specifically with "crewmember instructions with regard to these items", where "these items" include "the lighted passenger information signs, posted placards, areas designated for safety purposes as no smoking areas ... and instructions concerning the use of safety belts". There's nothing about obeying
ALL crewmember instructions without regard to topic of the instructions. Is there something elsewhere in the FARs to that effect?
Of course, compliance with all reasonable crewmember instructions is a good idea regardless of the FARs, but as noted by
You want to go where?, at hand is the question of potentially unreasonable crewmember instructions that are not one of the items listed above.