“Using a smartphone or iPad at take-off won’t cause your plane to crash, a European safety watchdog has decided,” Aideen Sheehan reports for The Independent.
“Passengers should be able to use electronic devices at take-off and landing within weeks after the European Aviation Safety Authority (EASA) decided they did not pose a safety risk,” Sheehan reports. “It will be up to individual airlines to decide whether to implement the guidelines.”
Sheehan reports, “MEP Jim Higgins said the old rules needed updating: ‘Few people really believed that playing music on your phone or iPad was going to cause the plane to crash.'”
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