The Knee Defender's Inventor Defends His Invention

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A passenger scuffle at 35,000 feet is keeping a Washington, D.C., entrepreneur busy. Ira Goldman, the inventor of a pair of clips called “Knee Defender,” says the website that sells the product has 

On Sunday, a United Airlines flight was forced to divert after two passengers got into an argument over the Knee Defender, a $22 gadget that stops the person in front of the user from reclining. The little gadget was invented by 

A US Airliner had to be diverted when two passengers got into an argument. The product Knee Defender caused this altercation. According to BBC's report, a passenger fought with another passenger because the latter attached the Knee Defender to his seat.

SOLUTION: If the guy won't compromise, whip out your Knee Defender (www.kneedefender.com), a plastic device that snaps onto your tray table and controls how far your nemesis can put his seat back. The Post's decade-old 

Forget the Knee Defender, here are the dos and don'ts of aeroplane etiquette. Rhik Samadder. For those keen to avoid a mile-high fracas, such as the one over a reclining seat that got the plane diverted, here's a handy guide.