And what exactly would the plane have hit during take-off for that to happen? I don't understand the scaremongering panic around plane travel. Sometimes you have to be realistic and accept that BA planes almost never crash and so making everyone tuck away their iPads and look at the ceiling afraid on every single one of the thousands of take-offs and landing every day is just ridiculously over the top.

I don't think anyone would ever question the use of a laptop on a UK train, but there's been a lot more crashes and derailments of those than there have been BA aircraft hit the ground.