Are mobile phones a flight risk? They could be on some Boeing jets
US govt officials in 2014 revealed an alarming safety issue: Passengers' mobile phones and other types of radio signals could pose a crash threat to some models of Boeing 737 and 777 airplanes. More than 1300 jets registered in the US were equipped with cockpit screens vulnerable to interference from Wi-Fi, mobile phones and even outside frequencies such as weather radar, according to the FAA, which gave airlines until Nov 2019 to replace the units made by Honeywell International. Today, potentially hundreds of planes worldwide are still flying with the unsafe systems cited in the FAA report. When airlines and Honeywell argued that radio signals were unlikely to cause safety problems during flight, though, the FAA countered that it had run tests on in-service planes -- and the jets flunked. <br/>
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Are mobile phones a flight risk? They could be on some Boeing jets
US govt officials in 2014 revealed an alarming safety issue: Passengers' mobile phones and other types of radio signals could pose a crash threat to some models of Boeing 737 and 777 airplanes. More than 1300 jets registered in the US were equipped with cockpit screens vulnerable to interference from Wi-Fi, mobile phones and even outside frequencies such as weather radar, according to the FAA, which gave airlines until Nov 2019 to replace the units made by Honeywell International. Today, potentially hundreds of planes worldwide are still flying with the unsafe systems cited in the FAA report. When airlines and Honeywell argued that radio signals were unlikely to cause safety problems during flight, though, the FAA countered that it had run tests on in-service planes -- and the jets flunked. <br/>
