An ATA passenger says he was harassed by a flight attendant, and almost arrested by police, for using an iPhone to watch a movie while on a recent flight to Hawaii.

The passenger, who was only identified by his first name Casey, got a scare from ATA flight attendants and the police. The iPhone has an “airplane mode” that disables cell phone, radio, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth signals, thus allowing you to watch movies… but that didn’t stop flight attendants from creating a scene.

“I recently was traveling to Hawaii on ATA airlines and took my iPhone along for the trip. During the first two hours of my five hour flight I was listening to music using the ipod function of my phone,” Casey said, according to the website Consumerist.com.

“The iPhone was sitting on my tray table in front of my seat, in plain sight. Then I decided to watch a movie. So I fired up the classic “I Know What You Did Last Summer”, a movie I had never seen before. About one-and-a-half hours into this cinematic masterpiece I had a flight attendant try to get my attention.

Full Story Via Aero News Network

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