Doesn't sound right to me (Score 2, Insightful)

So, if I put 10 cell phones, left on, in my checked baggage, and I get someone to call these numbers, my flight will veer off course? I highly doubt it. If this were the case, they (the FAA or whoever controls your airspace) would NOT LET A CELL PHONE WITHIN 10 MILES OF AN AIRPORT. Think about it, if the FAA won't let you have so much as a plastic knife on a flight, do you really think they would let you have something on board that could seriously affect the operation of the aircraft? Is it possible that EM could mess up radio comms (like static), sure. That is why they politely ask you to turn these devises off. If there was the chance that a serious failure could be caused by a cell phone, they would not ask, they would search and destroy!

Despite my total lack of belief regarding the issue of disruption of flight operations, I do think that if you use a cell on a flight you should be beaten with a sack full of hammers. No one wants to listen to your stupid conversation with you boss/wife/frat buddy, that goes for buses, trains, theaters, bars ......whatever.

thats my .02