It started with a rumor that was soon widely reported as fact: ADC-10, on final approach to New York's Kennedy Airport, suddenlypitched violently to the left and nearly crashed.
As the story went, the loss of control was caused by afirst-class passenger who had turned on his portable compact-discplayer. Within days, major airlines as well as the Air TransportAssociation, the main trade-lobbying group of the airlines, reactedquickly to the story - perhaps too quickly.
Northwest Airlines announced new restrictions: The airlinebanned the use of CD players, laptop computers, electroniccalculators, FM radios, electric shavers, voice recorders andremote-controlled …
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