Knee Defender: Airplane scuffle helps entrepreneur's sales take off

The Knee Defender is a $21.95 mechanism-jamming lock that attaches to a tray table and is obviously aimed at stratospheric gits. A cup of water was thrown, and both passengers ejected from the United Airlines flight. The rules of reclining, stowing and 

The Knee Defender is a $21.95 mechanism-jamming lock that attaches to a tray table and is obviously aimed at stratospheric gits. A cup of water was thrown, and both passengers ejected from the United Airlines flight. The rules of reclining, stowing and 

On Sunday, a fight between two passengers over personal space, a thrown cup of water and the use of a controversial plastic gadget that prevents airline seats from reclining caused United Airlines Flight 1462 from Newark, N.J., to Denver to divert to 

One of the passengers on Sunday's United Airlines flight had used a Knee Defender, a small wedge-like gadget that clips to the passenger's tray table, to force the seat in front to remain upright, according to the airline.

A US airliner has been diverted after a row broke out over one passenger's use of a device to prevent the seat in front of him from reclining. A male and female passenger were involved in a heated dispute on Sunday, after the male passenger attached a