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May 22, 2013 | 2:01 pm

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Originally Posted by bvipirate

Boeing engineers currently believe that is in the best interest of safety and they recommend that PED devices should be shut off below 10,000 feet. It is a lengthy but interesting read:

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aer..._textonly.html

I think I will follow the advice of Boeing engineers vs a plane mechanic.

As a result of these and other investigations, Boeing has not been able to find a definite correlation between PEDs and the associated reported airplane anomalies.
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Boeing also performed an airplane test on the ground with the same 16 phones. The airplane was placed in a flight mode and the flight deck instruments, control surfaces, and communication/navigation systems were monitored. No susceptibility was observed.
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The potential is great that PEDs will continue to be blamed for some anomalies regardless of whether they are the true cause

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