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I disagree. The airlines claim the risk of death from my water bottle is too high to allow me to bring the water on the plane. Fine. However, I'm allowed to bri
by cryptoz 16y ago
I disagree. The airlines claim the risk of death from my water bottle is too high to allow me to bring the water on the plane. Fine. However, I'm allowed to bring 100 cellphones in a backpack. They don't care about that, except to politely ask me to turn them off.
If there was a remote chance of a cellphone causing a crash - more chance than a bottle with water in it - then they would ban cellphones in flight.
It's very clear that there is no actual risk of interference at all.
- hcho 16y agoThe water bottle thing is not airlines' doing as far as I know. It's to do with your countries national security authority. Emirates allows mobile phones on some of their flights.
- jonknee 16y ago> The water bottle thing is not airlines' doing as far as I know. Neither is the cell phone thing in the US. It's both the FAA and FCC: http://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsid=6275 http://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsid=62...
- notahacker 16y agoLiquids are banned because there were rumours of terrorist plots involving liquid explosives and it was important that something was seen to be done about it. Carrying 100 mobile phones in a switched on state that have a small probability of interfering with navigation and communication systems would be a ludicrously impractical way of attempting an attack, so airline regulators funnily enough haven't accounted for that possibility.