Originally Posted by
BizFlyin
But that's not how we determine risk for plane flights. We don't take the risk of a pilot heart attack, multiply it by the risk for a double-engine failure, and divide by the number of in-range airports.
We look at reality. How many planes have crashed, and how many people have died, and that becomes your risk for death in a plane crash.
Following that same principle, for now, your risk from dying in an airplane with the cause being a cell phone is zero.
The risk is never zero and CAA have proved that in tests. The risk of a pilot having a heart attack is one of the reasons there is more than one of them on every commercial flight, so that is the mitigation for the risk. Unless you work for a safety regulator you have no concrete knowledge of what their criteria is. CAA's is obviously based on the potential for accident which they specifically state in the report which you appear determined to ignore because it debunks your 'theory' (in inverted commas as it isn't really a theory at all but a supposition based on zero facts.)