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...article, the English professor details the danger EMI pose to aircraft and how EMI from nearby military aircraft and warships might have caused the guidance and electrical systems of Flight 800 to malfunction. This, she says, may have led to the catastrophic explosion that killed all 229 aboard...
...plane's navigational instruments. To preventjust such electrical interference, the FAArequires all passengers to "turn off allcomputers, headsets, radios and telephones" duringtakeoff and landing. Although the energy radiatedby these devices is small, it can travel outwardto antennas mounted on the skin of the plane,causing serious interference in the aircraft'snavigational instruments and guidance systems...
...recent article, Scarry notes that EMIhas caused military aircraft crashes in the past.Between 1982 and 1988, six Black Hawk helicopterscrashed as a result of EMI, killing 22. During a1986 mission near Libya, EMI also caused the crashof an F111 bomber and disabled five others...
...HIRF may often [have] inadvertent effects oncivilian aircraft," the NASA report says. Compiledby researcher Martin Shooman, report findingsindicate that EMIs occur at "an intermediate andnot insignificant level...
Scarry says she does not know the "level orintensity" of military exercises underway at thetime of the crash because the Pentagon refuses topublicly divulge such information. In the article,she explores the possibility that the 10 or somilitary aircraft the Pentagon admits were "in thevicinity" at the time of the crash could haveeffected Flight...