It is an urban legend. Visit this link for the details:
Now, can we get back to scanning and put this pissing contest to bed.
Tom
>
> > Austin writes:
> >
> > > I'm sorry, Anthony, but your claim of a hoax
> > > is false. Now, you're an expert on airline trays?
> >
> > No, but after talking to Airbus and the IATA about this very
> > hoax, I was able to
> > confirm that it is baseless.
>
> Oh. Only Airbus and the IATA know anything about this. Whom at Airbus
and
> the IATA did you speak with?
>
> > The original hoax was a circulating
> > Internet story
>
> And you have a URL for this purported "Internet story"?
>
> > about two people flying on a Sabena flight and having their PCs ruined
by
> > "magnetic tray tables." It was claimed that this was an A340
> > (that's why I
> > wanted to confirm this with Airbus). But the A340 contains no
> > magnetic trays.
> >
> > The IATA issued a public statement
>
> Do you have a copy of this IATA public statement? Would you please send
it
> to me?
>
> > > I was on staff with a very large computer
> > > company, and the company intentionally did a
> > > study, and published a report ...
> >
> > Why didn't it just ask the aircraft manufacturer if the trays were
really
> > magnetic?
>
> They did ask the aircraft manufacturers, and that is why they said that
the
> problem existed. But, I guess you are just so much smarter than the
people
> who's job it was to research this topic, and write the report. Next time
> anyone needs to know what the real truth to, apparently, anything, is,
I'll
> just have them ask you! I know your track record, I've seen you "perform"
> for the past number of months...though no one ever agrees with you on any
of
> your topics of "discussion", I have come to believe that everyone, even my
> self, just doesn't know anything about anything...that you are the only
one
> who has the story straight, and your word, dispite all evidence to the
> contrary, is to just be taken as correct.
>
> You must be highly sought after to be on staff at every major engineering
> company in the world, since you know everything better than anyone else!
> Perhaps you could name a few of the major companies you consult for? And
> since you are just so smart, you must have patent after patent, and
perhaps
> you could name them too? Next time anyone asks me who I'd recommend for
CTO
> of a major engineering company, why, I'd have to say, Anthony, that's who!
>
> > > If I told you my car was white, you would argue
> > > with me, even though you have never seen my car.
> >
> > No
>
> That's argumentative...and you'll argue with that, I'm sure.
>
> >... I'd just ask to see the car.
>
> Then you'd argue with me that it really isn't my car.
>
