> In news:48c8befa$0$18425$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au,
> Sylvia Else typed:

>> TomTom wrote:
>>

>>>
>>> I am absolutely shocked! Does that suggest that all that Malarkey
>>> about mobiles etc in flight is just Baloney?
>>>
>>> Surely there is clear scientific evidence to support those claims?

>>
>> I don't think there is. There's just speculation and risk aversion.
>> Also, it may be that when the instruments are properly screened
>> there's no problem, but screening, like anything else on an aircraft,
>> can fail.

>>>
>>> Next we will be told that there is no risk in using mobile phones at
>>> the local servo. We all know that you will inevitably go up in a
>>> sheet of flame if you do that. It's happened to me so many times.

>>
>> Snopes regards this as an urban myth.
>>
>> http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp

>
>
> I am totally devastated! I'll have to have a cup of tea, a Bex and a
> good lie-down.
> On second thoughts, I'll just have a double long-black.