The 777 crash - another theory

Hi,

In article ,
Bertie the wrote:
Oh yeah. I morph my e-mail addie all the time, but if you look under my
posted name in Google you'll see some fairly mad stuff over the years. The
alt.aviation.safety stuff is probably some of the maddest stuff.

If only I had the time. Some of us have to work for a living

Andy

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:27:58 -0800 (PST), D Ramapriya
wrote:

Here's an intriguing take on what might have caused the 777's engine
to shut down. A dramatic pic of the moment of impact included...
http://thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article711639.ece

Having worked with computers (my degree is in CS), networks, and radio
communications, plus being an amateur radion operator I can say: It's
highly improbably that a cell phone would interfere with anything on a
plane even with the new "glass cockpits". There was an ariticle in
one of the aviation mags just recently on this subject. The consensus
was that cell phones could easily be used on commercial flights with
no problems other than the occasioanl lynching.

The frequencies used by cell phones are well removed from any used on
the aircraft. They are also very low power devices. Computers are
far more likely to create problems.

However any electronic device can malfunction and do things it wasn't
supposed to.

Roger (K8RI)

Ramapriya

"Roger (K8RI)" wrote in
:

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:27:58 -0800 (PST), D Ramapriya
wrote:

Here's an intriguing take on what might have caused the 777's engine
to shut down. A dramatic pic of the moment of impact included...
http://thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article711639.ece

Having worked with computers (my degree is in CS), networks, and radio
communications, plus being an amateur radion operator I can say: It's
highly improbably that a cell phone would interfere with anything on a
plane even with the new "glass cockpits". There was an ariticle in
one of the aviation mags just recently on this subject. The consensus
was that cell phones could easily be used on commercial flights with
no problems other than the occasioanl lynching.

The frequencies used by cell phones are well removed from any used on
the aircraft. They are also very low power devices. Computers are
far more likely to create problems.

However any electronic device can malfunction and do things it wasn't
supposed to.


Well, we do get the occasional beep te beep from them in the headsets or
speakers if we have them on, but that's almost always our own phones in the
cockpit.


Bertie