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The mechanical linkage of the seat can crush the phone and cause the battery to ignite. It would be helpful if the announcements eluded to this, as a pax I’m n
by mozman 3y ago
The mechanical linkage of the seat can crush the phone and cause the battery to ignite.
It would be helpful if the announcements eluded to this, as a pax I’m not going to want to bother anyone especially if i think it’s just another dumb pointless rule.
- mlyle 3y agoIt's a wacky thing, in that --- on the one side, you want to convince passengers the rule is serious... But you also don't really want to mention fire as you're beginning a flight.
- throwbadubadu 3y agoThe tickets are bought already, and you mention also the cabin pressure loss, what to do in case of an emergency landing and watering.. most airlines here also pretty explicit about battery devices going smokey, and noone freaks out, so that is really not the concern?
- CaptainZapp 3y agoWell, anything remotely refering to flight problems is cut out of inflight movies. Even Qantas cut the scene in Rainman where Raymond histerically doesn't want to board an airplane since Qantas is the only carrier that never had a fatality.
- mlyle 3y ago> The tickets are bought already, The concern isn't really revenue loss. > and noone freaks out, Plenty of people freak out and create safety issues and distractions. Anything you say during the safety briefing, you're making a tradeoff between slightly preparing sane, attentive passengers better and increasing the worry of anxious passengers.
- dotancohen 3y ago> especially if i think it’s just another dumb pointless rule FAA rules are written in blood. They may be overbearing and often tedious, but they are far from dumb and pointless. Those rules are from other government agencies.
- alvah 3y agoIs the "all devices must be put in flight mode" rule written in blood? Everything I've heard suggests it's not necessary. I agree with your general point though.
- rich_sasha 3y agoI think it is written with blood from a scratch. I spoke to a pilot about it a while back, he said in the early days (either because of less EM shielding or different phone design or something else - not sure) this really interfered with e.g. the landing radio aids. While it never caused a crash, it was mighty annoying and distracting, and in the wrong circumstances could have lead to a crash. AFAIK it never did, but could have done.
- NobodyNada 3y agoNote that the rule about mobile devices is an FCC rule, not an FAA rule.
- tomjakubowski 3y agoIt is both an FAA rule and an FCC rule https://www.faa.gov/travelers/fly_safe/information https://www.faa.gov/travelers/fly_safe/information
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agoHe's not saying the rule is pointless. He's pointing out that the announcements FAIL to explain that this is an important safety issue, leading passengers to BELIEVE that it's no big deal.
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- cperciva 3y agoAir Canada announcements specifically say "inform a member of our crew immediately as it may pose a fire hazard". I guess it varies from airline to airline.
- nrb 3y agoAnecdotally, United has been including a warning about the the phone’s battery becoming damaged in their pre-takeoff briefing for a while now.