Another good reason why mobile phones aren't welcome on airliners!

Jamming flight controls is a real danger. Electromagnetic interference is NOT.

Mr Creosote – the article says it was switched to silent (presumably vibrator) mode.

So it does. Saw this at work, and so only skimmed through the BBC article (and clearly not very well at that) Thanks. 😮

Mr Creosote – the article says it was switched to silent (presumably vibrator) mode.
A large risk, since it was dropped in the cockpit, would be jamming of flight controls – not a risk worth taking.
There is much more about this on PPrune.

sounds very fishy to me!!!

I have lost count the amount of times myself and my co workers have left their phones on during the flight. It was funny the time we were cleared to line up and the FOs phone started ringing!!!!!

I’m probably missing something here, but if the phone was switched on why didn’t they get someone to call it, and locate it from the sound of it ringing? Worked for me the other day.

You’d figure with the technology available to engineers today, they would have been able to do something about this instrument interference thing. But the pilot did what he had to do! Good on him for making the right call!

A very prudent move by the captain, it could have interfered with the planes navigational equipment

yer read about that in todays Sun newspaper, crazy story,

Jon