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Jimmy Yan

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Article text courtesy of economist.com Turn off your iPad now, please Jan 7th 2013, 16:53 by N.B. | WASHINGTON, D.C. AMERICA’S Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which regulates airline safety in the country, has recently been giving evasive explanations when asked why passengers have to turn off their electronic devices for takeoff and landing. They have told Nick Bilton of the New York Times that iPads and Kindles have to be turned off because they could disrupt a plane’s electronics—but have also allowed pilots to bring iPads into the cockpit. Previously, agency representatives had claimed they were just being cautious. Other reporters have received similar, ever-changing explanations over the years. This has been going on for a while, and airlines can be complicit in it, as documented in this correspondent’s all-time-favourite article in The Economist, a September 2006 piece that imagined an airline that told its passengers:... continue reading: [url=http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2013/01/electronic-devices-planes]http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2013/01/electronic-devices-planes[/url]