Apple hasn't done a good enough job of spreading the word about the iPhone's "plane safe" feature, it seems.

As you may or may not know, most airlines have rules against the use of mobile phones while an airplane is in flight. The worry is that your $50 motorola flip-phone will manage to jam the multi-million dollar advanced communications equipment on the plane and send everyone to their fiery death.

If you're like the ATA airlines crew on this flight, however, you're not yet aware that the iPhone has an "airplane mode" in which all of the phone features are disabled, effectively rendering it a video iPod.

13 Oct 2007

A man was arrested in Hawaii earlier this week when he used his iPhone to watch a movie in-flight. One of the flight attendants saw the man pull out and activate his smartphone, and requested that he turn it off.

The man, of course, refused to give up his Jobs-given right to watch movies on his iPod 30,000ft in the air and told the attendant the he would not be cooperating.

Bad idea.

As soon as the plane landed, the iPhone crusader was escorted off the plane and arrested. No charges were filed.