


The Federal Aviation Administration leaves it up to individual airlines to set rules about the device. United said it prohibits use of the device, like all other major U.S. airlines.

The dispute on Flight 1462 from Newark, N.J., escalated to the point where the pilot decided to divert the plane to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, according to Transportation Security Administration spokesman Ross Feinstein.

Chicago police and TSA officers met the flight, spoke to the passengers - a man and a woman, both 48 - and "deemed it a customer service issue," Feinstein said.
