For years the FAA has had a rule against passengers using electronic tech devices on planes. It is not based on facts, and is plain ludicrous on it's face to think that a cell phone can affect an airliner. But truth and logic are often missing from official govt actions and there is always a portion of the public that is nervous about flying despite the statistics and gullible enough to believe that the FAA or Flight Attendant or someone must be vigilant to protect them from some unknown dread.

Anyway the story today is that an FAA panel may soon remove this restriction. So all those who believe in fairly tales better prepare their bombproof bunker in case one of the many falling planes lands on them.

A reader survey finds, 39% think the change will be safe, 16% believe it will be dangerous, 11% say they don't turn off their device anyway, and the rest made another reply.