Portfolio A: Presentation of the Issue

For many, many years Mobile phones have been a fast way of communication in our world rather than using letters and other emails. Mobile phones have also been a problem because they can cause hazards in someone’s life. Hazards like cancer, diminished hearing and worse crashes are sometimes caused by mobile phones. These crashes especially happen in trains and airplanes and have become a common issue of discussion between aviation industries like Boeing and Airbus. If a mobile phone is switched on or used during flight or train journeys, since they operate at a different frequency than the airplanes or trains, they could intercept, scramble or block the frequency thereby prohibiting communication between the pilots and the airport towers or the train engineer and the station. This might cause crashes which endanger the life and property of other people on the train or airplane. Sometimes the passenger isn’t the only problem, the pilot or train engineer are too. The recent 2008 train crash was caused by the train engineer who was making calls and texting to his friend when the crash happened. Every year there are approximately 3,000 train accidents. Every year approximately 1,000 people will die as a result of train accidents. Almost every 2 weeks a train derailment causes a chemical spill, leading up to evacuations of local residents and most of them are as a result of some electrical malfunction and also of mobile phones.