The above title of this blog is a comment made by Senator Claire McCaskill with the announcement by the FAA that they were loosening the rules on electronic devices being used by passengers in airplanes.
for many years, travelers were prohibited to have their electronic instruments on because it might interfere with cockpit communications and navigation equipment. Flight attendants became “hall monitors”, and everyone was admonished by the pilot to turn off all electronic devices until the plane reached about 10,000 feet in the air.
