Other iPhone survives 16,000 foot drop?

[Mr.Fox]

Critical piece of Alaska Airlines Boeing plane found in Portland school teacher's backyard

NTSB officials said the Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 "door plug" and two cell phones have been recovered after the Boeing 737-9 MAX blowout at 16,000 feet.

www.foxbusiness.com

tl;dr

X user Sean Safyre shared photos of one of the cell phones he claimed to have found on the side of the road.

He said the iPhone was still in airplane mode with half a battery and was opened to baggage claim for ASA1282, deeming the device "perfectly" intact after apparently surviving a 16,000-foot drop.

Will be interesting to see if this gets verified. My guess is that Apple and the case manufacturer go into marketing overdrive!!!

Let me guess, the next news will be: iphone will survive falling into a volcano?

 

[Larbo]

Lots of people have don’t have auto lock enabled.

Lots of people are really stupid!!

 

[mw360]

I'm not believing this at all. Where's the phone owner at? Did they take the phone to the airline company lost and found? Too many questions.

These questions are answered in the article. The phone was handed to the NTSB, the phone’s owner chose to remain with the plane until it landed.

 

[onenorth]

I don’t think it’s so impossible. Objects reach a terminal velocity and if it fell in the wild, most likely in soft brush etc. The height isn’t the issue, it’s the contact point (concrete, solid rock etc).

Yes and the even the more massive door plug from the airplane also seemed to survive the impact without too much damage.

 

[kp98077]

It has happened before. This phone cracked, but it landed on a building roof.

iPhone 4 survives fall from skydiver's pocket

Jarrod McKinney's iPhone 4 -- a notoriously fragile device -- cracked when his 2-year-old knocked it off a bathroom shelf.

edition.cnn.com

Clearly the terminal velocity of a phone is much lower than we’d expect. A falling penny hits terminal velocity after just 15 metres, and it’s a mere 25mph…

Can a penny dropped off a building kill you?

Walking down a city sidewalk, you protect your valuables and weave through crowds. Should you also beware of falling pennies?

science.howstuffworks.com

I wouldn’t not lock my phone. But lots do.

A Pew poll had 28% of people.

Many smartphone owners don’t take steps to secure their devices

More than a quarter of owners say they don't use a screen lock or other security features to access their phone, but most are taking at least some steps for security.

www.pewresearch.org

Hmm lets just get all of our data stolen...

 

[ifxf]

I am a skeptic on this. Why would the phone be unlocked enabling the finder to get access.

I know people who don’t bother with locking, claim it is too much trouble to setup. I actually helped a couple of people setup face id, it was amusing watching them mis-follow Apple’s instructions.

 

[chown33]

Moderation Note

Please continue discussion in the News thread.

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

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...

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