A man was detained for using his iPhone, in "Airplane Mode," on an ATA flight to Hawaii, according to the Consumerist. In the air, there were some heated discussions with the flight attendants, but later, after the man was led off the plane and questioned, cooler heads prevailed, and he was set free.

A man, who identified himself as Casey described his ordeal.

"I recently was traveling to Hawaii on ATA airlines and took my iPhone along for the trip. During the first 2 hours of my 5 hour flight I was listening to music using the ipod function of my iPhone," ’Casey’ began.

Later, he started watching a movie, in the iPhone’s Airplane mode, when an ATA flight attendant ordered him to turn off the iPhone. After explaining the Airplane Mode to the flight attendant, the flight attendant was steadfast and again told Casey to turn the iPhone off.

"About 10 minutes later, the same guy comes back and waves his hand in front of my face, I pause the movie again, and look over at him," Casey wrote. "He says that I am not allowed to use a cell phone in flight and I am breaking FAA rules. Again I tell him I have the phone in airplane mode, and would be more than happy to show that to him. He didn’t want to see it and said I am breaking FAA rules."

After some heated discussion, the head flight attendant handed the traveler a written notice of violation, checking the box "Talking on cell phone."

When the plane landed, the man was arrested. After some discussion, cooler heads prevailed and Casey was released.

"I have never been harassed by someone so much as that flight attendant. He was very rude to me the whole flight, lied about FAA rules, and changed his story to police 3 times. I took a Southwest flight later in the week, they have it clearly written in the inflight magazine that airplane mode is fine over 10,000 feet," Casey wrote.

Casey filed a complaint with ATA but has heard nothing so far.