Picture: Nationwide Transportation Security Board
An iPhone discovered beside a highway in Portland reportedly dropped from an Alaska Airways jet after a part of the fuselage indifferent in flight, instantly depressurizing the cabin. The iPhone is undamaged regardless of a 16,000-foot plunge.
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iPhone shrugs off 3-mile drop from Alaska Airways airplane
On Friday night time, an Alaska Airways Boeing 737 en path to Ontario, California had a door plug come off in flight. Nobody was killed, and just one individual suffered minor accidents.
However small objects had been sucked out. That features a number of telephones.
Seanathan Bates posted on X (previously Twitter) about discovering a working iPhone that fell from the flight. They mentioned, “Survived a 16,000 foot drop completely in tact!”
Discovered an iPhone on the aspect of the highway… Nonetheless in airplane mode with half a battery and open to a baggage declare for #AlaskaAirlines ASA1282 Survived a 16,000 foot drop completely in tact!
Once I referred to as it in, Zoe at @NTSB mentioned it was the SECOND telephone to be discovered. No door but pic.twitter.com/CObMikpuFd
— Seanathan Bates (@SeanSafyre) January 7, 2024
The Nationwide Transportation Security Board instructed The Guardian that the handset most likely fell from the jet. “That was one of many telephones collected that’s probably from the flight. It has since been turned over to Alaska Airways.”
Not solely was the iPhone powerful sufficient to outlive a fall of three miles, its battery had dropped solely about 50% within the day and half after its plunge. If the proprietor had used Discover My, they might have situated the handset themselves.
