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“Also unclear is how the plaintiffs plan to establish that the iPhone or iPad caused the crash, or how they may determine that the copilot's device was responsible.
A published investigation in early 2017 laid out the circumstantial case that a copilot had placed his iPhone and tablet on a glare-shield in the cockpit, as seen on CCTV cameras.
Experts pushed back on that theory. David Learmount, a former pilot and operations and safety editor at Flight International magazine, told The Daily Telegraph in 2017 that the theory was a "red herring," and far from the most plausible explanation.
"A phone bursting into flames just below the windscreen is a fairly spectacular thing to take place on a flight, and they would have told somebody on the ground. Nobody has mentioned this," Learmount said. "The key point is while there were warnings about the window heating systems, there were also smoke alarms in the toilet and avionics bay under the floor. How would the fire have got under there? It doesn't make sense."

The pilots were in contact with air traffic control and the cockpit voice data recorder and the flight data recorder were both recovered. The CVDR showed the crew never saying anything about either of the Apple devices which apparent had been placed in plain sight bursting into flames while they were trying to handle the emergency and failing to due so. Instead they talked about smoke detectors going off in the Avionics bay below them and in the toilet. Not a thing was said about seeing what would have been an obvious smoke/fire source in front of them, had it occurred. Nobody on the flight crew shouted to "grab a fire extinguisher, the iPhone/ipad/device is burning!"

This lawsuit is built on supposition and innuendo based on the fact that SAMSUNG DEVICES were known to have burst into flames on airplanes several times in this time frame, that two Apple devices were in the cockpit (oh, my!), so Apple devices and Samsung devices are in some way equivalent, so therefore the cause of the crash must be that one of them, can’t say which, spontaneously exploded into flames! We didn’t see it, but Apple has deep pockets and Samsung devices (ooooh, devices!) were banned from even being in carryon luggage!

This, of course, ignores the fact that iPads are standard issue equipment for airline pilots as their modern "flight bag" for their check lists, Airport maps, and charts! In a crunch, an iPhone runs the same software.