I think this needs to be repeated for everyone.
They redacted his cellphone number and provider in the interview if you ever need further proof.
The NTSB will definitely pull this data. So please for the love of god, use good judgement. Or a burner phone.
During the close call in Boston within the last year when a Learjet took off without clearance the jumpseater on the JetBlue was taking video with his phone.
The
Line from the interview to paraphrase was ‘I was using my PED in accordance with the JetBlue SOP in my position as a flight deck jumpseater”.
And that had absolutely nothing to do with the incident; but he got dragged into it just being in the jumpseat.