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Oct 19, 2007 | 5:34 pm

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Wainwright

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Originally Posted by CessnaJock

If you go over the links in this thread: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=619038 you will find any quantity of both anecdotal and systematic evidence that electronic devices can interfere with aircraft control and navigation systems.

Now suppose you are a terrorist cell intent upon bringing down a few dozen U.S.-flag airliners (as in the Manila plot) and you know that broadband RF noise of sufficient power could do it. Remember - these people are fanatical, not stupid.

Could you disguise your device as a laptop or GameBoy and walk right onto a plane with it? Or build a timer into it and secrete it in a checked bag or cargo shipment?

I can think of more frightening scenarios than that.

With all the problems surrounding electronics on planes, I would like to think that many of the issues you have, have been discussed during aircraft design.

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