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Your phone probably wasn't going to crash the plane

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Your Kindle was never going to bring down a Boeing 747. The Federal Aviation Administration banned devices during takeoff entirely out of an abundance of caution, not proven danger. Airlines happily enforced it for years because it forced passengers to actually pay attention to the safety demonstration instead of playing Candy Crush while plummeting down the runway.

Your phone probably wasn't going to crash the plane
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