Pretty much...when the blown out plug shows up intact and not very crunched, it isn't suprising an iPhone would do the same.
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iPhone Survives 16,000-Foot Drop After Alaska Airlines Plane Incident
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Falls 16k feet: just fine
Falls 4 feet onto carpet: screen shatters
Falls 4 feet onto carpet: screen shatters
Get Elon to try it from SpaceX. See if it survives reentry!
I always keep mine on, unless I need to get up, but I'm going to seriously reconsider asking for emergency exit seats...
I’ve been using a passcode, TouchID or FaceID since 2011 and my first iPhone, the 4S. Some people are just too careless with their personal data.
IT's probably younger people that go without the passcode. They don't have as much financial history or stakes at risk as someone older more established.
Another quality control blunder at Boeing. United found that the door plugs on their Max 9s have the same assembly/installation issue.
I saw article saying it was loose bolts. https://www.yahoo.com/news/alaska-a...ug-accident-heres-what-we-know-212608367.html
The person has their iPhone set to never lock the screen, Been using that mode since my iPhone 4 and never had any problems with battery life.
I think there's videos on YouTube of skydivers dropping their phone, it just spins really fast, it's difficult for it to reach terminal velocity.
I think there's videos on YouTube of skydivers dropping their phone, it just spins really fast, it's difficult for it to reach terminal velocity.
They had the gall to CHARGE some poor sap for checked baggage on a flight where the fuselage ripped apart and they had to emergency land? SAD! Time to BOYCOTT and federally investigate the crooked Alaska Airlines!
What's kind of funny/interesting is that a major contributing factor to the phone surviving the fall was specifically because the plane was up at 16,000 feet, which gave the phone plenty of time to slow down to terminal velocity of somewhere in the general ballpark of 50 mph.
If the phone had gotten sucked out of the plane just above the ground, in contrast, it would have been going hundreds of miles an hour, and almost certainly would have been obliterated by whatever it hit.
People fake stupid things all the time, but there's no reason to be skeptical--at terminal velocity, which something falling out of this plane would have been, it's not even particularly surprising for it to survive in good condition if it landed on soft organic matter (which it did), even more so if it got slowed down a bit by hitting some light foliage near the ground first. Here's a guy dropping an older model from a weather balloon around that height and it survived just fine because it landed on soft dirt/sand. There are dozens of similar videos of GoPros on balloons.
It was incredible luck that on a ⅔ full plane no one was sitting there, but because it wasn't an exit row on this model, that row was no different than any of the others in terms of seat pitch, so there's no reason folks would have picked it for extra legroom.
The part of this story I find hardest to believe is that someone on a flight used airplane mode.
Whatever. Its speed is limited by its friction coefficient, and it must've landed on a very soft surface. Big whoop.
Ah, I didn’t look at the Twitter quote. This means that the finder fiddled with the settings before taking the photo.
It wasn't an exit row. From inside the plane, it looks like just a normal row.
Yes, but from what I got from the news story — it was the kind of modification that has a door on the outside, but the inside doesn't "support" it. Sitting next to an emergency exit is just as good.
