Comment by georgemcbay

I can appreciate the concern over these words among the flight staff.

But at the same time in the wake of these type of incidents and seeing how they are responded to, if I were a group that wanted to harm economic interests I'd invest in malware that I'd spend years silently spreading and then at some future date flip to a mode where infected devices detect when they are likely to be in-flight via GPS data and have them randomly change wifi hotspot and bluetooth identifiers to 'bomb' to inflict chaos and economic damage across a system that is apparently incapable of dealing with that.

I don't blame people who are responsible for the lives of others for overreacting in a one-off situation, but such overreaction could be weaponized.