ATA Airlines detains passenger for using iPhone in 'airplane mode'

Iria · Oct 14, 2007, 07:17 AM

Source: One More Thing Blog (News.com)
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Apparently putting your iPhone in airplane mode is not the digital equivalent of returning your seatback to the upright position.

A flight attendant for ATA Airlines recently asked a flier watching a movie midflight on the way to Hawaii to shut off his iPhone, not for the perfectly reasonable reason that the man was watching the inane Jennifer-Love Hewitt vehicle I Know What You Did Last Summer, but because you're not allowed to use cell phones inflight.

**temeteus82** · Oct 14, 2007, 09:10 AM

heh, I've already talked about this in ariliners.net

Yeah it's the law that if the flight attendant orders you to do something and you don't do it it's a crime. So if you don't shut your phone if they say so you goto jail

germanjulian · Oct 14, 2007, 01:57 PM

mhh, the BA telling me I cannot use earphones on the plane... (makes sense cause i cannot hear announcements)

that only happened with 1 BA flight with one gay (male) flight attended telling me off twice... idiot

Oct 14, 2007, 07:17 AM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	ATA Airlines detains passenger for using iPhone in 'airplane mode' Source: One More Thing Blog (News.com) _____________ Apparently putting your iPhone in airplane mode is not the digital equivalent of returning your seatback to the upright position. A flight attendant for ATA Airlines recently asked a flier watching a movie midflight on the way to Hawaii to shut off his iPhone, not for the perfectly reasonable reason that the man was watching the inane Jennifer-Love Hewitt vehicle I Know What You Did Last Summer, but because you're not allowed to use cell phones inflight.

Oct 14, 2007, 01:57 PM	#3
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