I only have my passcode set for Apple pay. I am not worried about much because my phone is 99 percent of the time always on me.
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iPhone Survives 16,000-Foot Drop After Alaska Airlines Plane Incident
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I only have my passcode set for Apple pay. I am not worried about much because my phone is 99 percent of the time always on me.
Looks like an Otter Box case of some sort. First thing I do with any new iPhone is wrap an Otter Box around it!
Meanwhile my iPhone in an otterbox cant survive falling from the Counter lmao
No but really though i guess i am lol.
That phone sure did crack inside my 80 dollar phone case. I was like "Well damn lol"
But this is still pretty cool (the malfunction aside of course) to see.
Yes, of course. But much worse can happen for which no seatbelt can save you. A blowout like the one on this Alaska flight could have easily triggered a domino effect of loss of fuselage with entire rows of seats just plunging to the void. This happened to the Turkish Airlines DC-10 from Instanbul to Paris in 1974. Miles away from Orly airport, rows of seats with passengers still strapped to their seats were found. Of course, all dead. Who knows what could have happened to that Alaska jet had it reached full altitude before the panel blew out.
Did it trigger fall detention?
An iPhone that was expelled from the cabin of Alaska Airlines flight 1282 on Friday survived a fall of more than 16,000 feet and was discovered intact.
Vancouver, Washington resident Sean Bates shared images of the device on Sunday after he found it on the side of Barnes Road in Portland, Oregon. The iPhone was in full working condition and was in fact still open to an Alaska Airlines email. There were no cracks on the display, though it was protected by a case and presumably landed in a forested area with soft ground cover.
Bates alerted the National Transportation Safety Board, and officials came out to collect the device. The NTSB told Bates that it was the second phone to be found from the flight in the area.
The iPhone was expelled from Alaska Airlines flight 1282 after a portion of the plane blew out shortly after it took off from the Portland International Airport. The aircraft was able to safely land back at the Portland airport, and all passengers and crew members survived.
The sudden depressurization in the cabin of the plane caused items like smartphones to be sucked out, where they fell to the ground below. In 2011, Wired wrote a piece on the terminal velocity of an iPhone falling from a plane, which is a good explainer how the device was able to survive. In a nutshell, the low weight and maximum speed of the iPhone leads to a limited amount of force on landing despite the height of the fall, so the end result isn't too much different from dropping it from a lower height.
There were two smartphones found from the plane, along with other debris such as the plug door that may give some insight into what went wrong.
Article Link: iPhone Survives 16,000 Foot Drop After Alaska Airlines Plane Incident
It’s not the height of the fall, it’s what it lands on.
If true, I think this story really isn't much of a story. I am surprised it has garnered any attention at all.
I really look forward to Apple making some cutesy commercial about this to post on YouTube. 
"What other phone can survive a 16,000 foot drop? Only iPhone.
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"What other phone can survive a 16,000 foot drop? Only iPhone.
" (Drop by G-Eazy plays in the background)
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An iPhone that was expelled from the cabin of Alaska Airlines flight 1282 on Friday survived a fall of more than 16,000 feet and was discovered intact.
Vancouver, Washington resident Sean Bates shared images of the device on Sunday after he found it on the side of Barnes Road in Portland, Oregon. The iPhone was in full working condition and was in fact still open to an Alaska Airlines email. There were no cracks on the display, though it was protected by a case and presumably landed in a forested area with soft ground cover.
Bates alerted the National Transportation Safety Board, and officials came out to collect the device. The NTSB told Bates that it was the second phone to be found from the flight in the area.
The iPhone was expelled from Alaska Airlines flight 1282 after a portion of the plane blew out shortly after it took off from the Portland International Airport. The aircraft was able to safely land back at the Portland airport, and all passengers and crew members survived.
The sudden depressurization in the cabin of the plane caused items like smartphones to be sucked out, where they fell to the ground below. In 2011, Wired wrote a piece on the terminal velocity of an iPhone falling from a plane, which is a good explainer how the device was able to survive. In a nutshell, the low weight and maximum speed of the iPhone leads to a limited amount of force on landing despite the height of the fall, so the end result isn't too much different from dropping it from a lower height.
There were two smartphones found from the plane, along with other debris such as the plug door that may give some insight into what went wrong.
Article Link: iPhone Survives 16,000 Foot Drop After Alaska Airlines Plane Incident
Maybe it was in airplane mode? In any event, these are Timex levels of durability.
Which iPhone model? Can anyone tell?
An iPhone that was expelled from the cabin of Alaska Airlines flight 1282 on Friday survived a fall of more than 16,000 feet and was discovered intact.
Vancouver, Washington resident Sean Bates shared images of the device on Sunday after he found it on the side of Barnes Road in Portland, Oregon. The iPhone was in full working condition and was in fact still open to an Alaska Airlines email. There were no cracks on the display, though it was protected by a case and presumably landed in a forested area with soft ground cover.
Bates alerted the National Transportation Safety Board, and officials came out to collect the device. The NTSB told Bates that it was the second phone to be found from the flight in the area.
The iPhone was expelled from Alaska Airlines flight 1282 after a portion of the plane blew out shortly after it took off from the Portland International Airport. The aircraft was able to safely land back at the Portland airport, and all passengers and crew members survived.
The sudden depressurization in the cabin of the plane caused items like smartphones to be sucked out, where they fell to the ground below. In 2011, Wired wrote a piece on the terminal velocity of an iPhone falling from a plane, which is a good explainer how the device was able to survive. In a nutshell, the low weight and maximum speed of the iPhone leads to a limited amount of force on landing despite the height of the fall, so the end result isn't too much different from dropping it from a lower height.
There were two smartphones found from the plane, along with other debris such as the plug door that may give some insight into what went wrong.
Article Link: iPhone Survives 16,000 Foot Drop After Alaska Airlines Plane Incident
lol, probably because it landed on a soft area. If it landed on concrete or asphalt it would probably be totally destroyed.
If it was a person I doubt that they would’ve fared as well, even if the landed in a soft area
From the photo it looks like it's fall was cushioned by shrubbery and soft ground. lol, I'm sorry but comparing a human to small hard object with soft flesh that can be easily damaged is not even close. Iphone is a much smaller surface area landing in a what looks to be bushy branches that broke it's fall. A human would be impaled or worse falling from that height.
Who doesn’t put a passcode on their phone these days?!
Apple makes you go though multiple passcode decline prompts in the setup process to do so - I know because I go through this each time I get a new iPhone so that I can get the iOS up-to-date before I factory reset it and do an iCloud restore
The durability of his iPhone is definitely great PR for Apple though 👍👌😎
Apple makes you go though multiple passcode decline prompts in the setup process to do so - I know because I go through this each time I get a new iPhone so that I can get the iOS up-to-date before I factory reset it and do an iCloud restore
The durability of his iPhone is definitely great PR for Apple though 👍👌😎
