iPhone Survives 16,000-Foot Drop After Alaska Airlines Plane Incident

[pdoherty]

Phones aren't that heavy, and if it hit branches before the ground then it makes sense that it still works.

It's just a shame it wasn't videoing at the time.

 

[Allen_Wentz]

Clearly it has a case on and a screen protector. It most definitely wouldn’t have survived if it was a naked phone

Wrong.
A) Caseless modern iPhones are tough. Folks who think cases are necessary for survival are flat wrong.
B) The 16k feet is irrelevant. Look up terminal velocity.
C) It just comes down to what surface the iPhones landed on. Soil good, concrete bad...

 

[AF_APPLETALK]

What do we think the specs were? Looks like an iPhone 14 Pro Max to me

 

[Chuckeee]

If that was my phone and I was on that flight, I would be buying lottery tickets right now.

No just opposite. I’m pretty sure they used up their good luck quota. They might even be overdrawn

 

[kp98077]

does anyone know what model it is?

 

[Clamjuice65]

I wonder what phone case is that ?

 

[technole]

Looks like 14 Pro Max. At-least they found the door plug too in a Portland teacher's backyard.

 

[svish]

Very surprised to see that there is no damage to the iPhone.

 

[H2SO4]

That 16,000 foot thing seems a bit clickbaity.
Once you reach terminal velocity you can add as many thousand feet as you like and it won’t make any difference.

 

[Spike1999]

AirDrop

literally lol

 

[Spike1999]

The iPhone cracked the ground instead.

 

[jonnysods]

Lucky that thing didn't hit someone, it must been coming down like a missle, now that would have been horrible headline news for Apple, I can just imagine the Google and Samsung ads now!

 

[Dremmel]

Incredible. Apple gotta use this in marketing since nobody was hurt.

 

[BornAgainMac]

In the past, whenever I dropped my iPhone it would at a minimum cause minor damage that would make a trade in impossible. The other day, I dropped my iPhone 15 Pro Max without any protection and it fell face first on the screen and then bounced up and flipped and then hit the pavement on the other side. There was zero damage. Very impressive.

 

[arobert3434]

How was it found? Guy just driving along and and sees it sitting there alongside the road?! That seems even luckier than the phone happening to hit a soft, rock-free portion of earth in the middle of a semi-urban area.

 

[rmariboe]

I’m willing to bet Seanathan Bates got a call or two from a couple of case manufacturer 😅
Also, what the hell kinda name is that? Parents got confused or couldn’t make up their minds? Sean or Jonathan, why not both? 🤷🏽‍♂️

 

[Al Rukh]

That’s good PR for Apple. Wouldn’t surprise a lowkey reference to this when the 16 series get announced later this year.

 

[CapitalIdea]

I know people with no passcode on their phone. Crazy considering how much personal data is on there these days…but some people are a little nuts. Usually their reasoning is along the lines of “I don’t trust Face ID and a passcode is inconvenient”

You’ve spoken to my mother-in-law I see. That is her exact wording, along with “if someone steals it God has a plan for it.” 🙄

 

[Jhieminga]

109% charge at start and in airplane mode.

It was being charged when it left the aeroplane... the plug and part of the cable was still attached.

 

[sparkinstx]

I'm just glad no one on the ground got hit with it.

Oof! Reminded me of the game Office Jerk.

 

[krspkbl]

take that jerryrigeverything!

seriously. you can drop an iphone like 2 feet off and it will shatter into a billion pieces but it's not surprising it can survive 16,000 ft.

if you want to break something you can do it easily but it's also easy for **** like this to happen.

 

[sparkinstx]

Reminds me of the Marantz stereo ads in the 70s showing a receiver or amp that had been in a fire and was still capable of working ... or Timex watches that keep on ticking.

“The fire started on the first ... - Marantz Official

“The fire started on the first floor… …worked its way to the second floor where my Marantz 2270 was, and finally engulfed the third floor. The floors collapsed and fell into the basement where the...

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"John Cameron Swayze here..." (Timex takes a licking, and keeps on ticking.)

 

[sparkinstx]

I wonder if the owner had already replaced it?

 

[MacFarmer]

Was the impact with the ground not enough to activate the iPhone's crash detection?

Why do you always need to bring people's spirit down?

 

[RobNYC]

I didn't have a passcode on mine for a while - I live alone and seldom leave the house - but I would definitely enable it prior to plane travel!

People forget. A lot of people just don't passcode their phones at all.