Magnetic trays of Airbus A340

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MAGNETIZATION OF TRAY TABLES
A few weeks ago, one or more persons that obviously wanted to do some harm
to Sabena were sending messagestelling that 2 individuals who were flying
with Sabena had problems with their laptop computers. They claim that the
tray tables on the Airbus A340 are magnetized so they would make no noise
when they are stored in their armrests. This magnetization would cause
problems to laptop computers.

Sabena would like to react very strongly to these allegations since it is
strictly impossible that such problems occured.
the tray tables that we use are completely made of plastic, which cannot
be magnetized and the seats that we use on our Airbus A340 don�t have any
magnet to keep the trays in place in the armrest.
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 IATA 's OFFICIAL PRESS STATEMENT

      "Unsubstantiated reports have been recently claiming that the tray
tables in the seats of Sabena A340 aircraft are       magnetised and have
been responsible for corrupting the disk drives of laptops."

IATA ( http://www.iata.org ) wishes to emphasise that it does not, and
never has, supported such a claim. It has now received confirmation from
the seat manufacturer, the airline and the aircraft manufacturer, that
these seats do not include any magnetic devices and therefore cannot
inflict any damage to electronic equipment.