Other iPhone survives 16,000 foot drop?

[icanhazmac]

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!!!

 

[diego.caraballo]

Same iPhone, drops 2 feet on carpet: shattered beyond repair 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

[SR Steve]

For those wanting the best protection for extreme conditions nothing can beat the drop test on these phones which were sucked out of the Alaska Airlines plane @ 16,000 feet and found in and around Portland. The one in the video is shown working and was said to have minimal damage. As this story unfolds we should be able to get more info on the details.

 

[Canyda]

Color me skeptical that a phone that fell that high not only didn't sustain damage but was apparently still unlocked when found so that people could get photos of the Alaska Airlines email that was apparently loaded up when found. It seems unlikely.

 

[Hooterville]

Is that a Phone Rebel case?

 

[Hooterville]

Color me skeptical that a phone that fell that high not only didn't sustain damage but was apparently still unlocked when found so that people could get photos of the Alaska Airlines email that was apparently loaded up when found. It seems unlikely.

That is mighty fishy

 

[kp98077]

I cannot even believe an iPhone survived a 16,000 drop from the Alaska airlines plane over Portland! This is crazy! I guess I wont complain anymore about all that stainless steel and titanium!

 

[daneoni]

Well it was in a what looks to be a fairly sturdy case and has a screen protector (albeit an ugly one). Its odds of survival were notable at that point.

 

[kp98077]

anyone know which model this is?

 

[Canyda]

That is mighty fishy

I mean, look, it's POSSIBLE. I'm not outright saying this is fraud or made up. But as a former journalist, I'd be asking some hard questions about this.

Also, if Copilot is correct, the phone would have hit the ground travelling 135 mph. If that's legit, that's the best iPhone case I've ever seen.

 

[BuddyTronic]

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!!!

Yah. Pretty cool!

I’m guessing it hits terminal velocity.

“Airplane mode” joke was funny too

 

[nebo1ss]

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!!!

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

 

[kp98077]

Yeah a little skeptical too... soooo weird... what case is that?

 

[KurtWilde]

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

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

 

[erikkfi]

What am I supposed to take away from this? That iPhones can be expected to survive a drop from 16,000 feet? I doubt any manufacturer would ever back that claim, nor does this event have any meaning for the average user.

More disinformation shared on "X."

 

[dennis264]

Terminal velocity wouldn't be, RELATIVELY, that much. Also we've had a lot of rain, it probably landed in soft dirt, or a bush. The area it was lost in is particularly wet and woody.
I often change certain settings on my phone for travel, longer unlock times etc.
If it was in airplane mode, with the display alsleep and no unlock, this doesn't surprise me.

 

[JustAnExpat]

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.

 

[Sorinut]

What am I supposed to take away from this? That iPhones can be expected to survive a drop from 16,000 feet? I doubt any manufacturer would ever back that claim, nor does this event have any meaning for the average user.

More disinformation shared on "X."

Yea, this is just a bit of trivia and an interesting news story..or just a fabrication. It doesn't mean anything and won't be used for marketing.

 

[kp98077]

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

what? I dont think so.. why would you not lock your phone?

 

[kp98077]

This is a bit like watching the news on the actual incident or what Alaska airlines says in comparison to the NTSB (where they have many more details, such as the cockpit door opened, the pilots' headsets blew off/way, and it affected everything through row 1, bathroom door got jammed, mask didnt deploy etc.

 

[KurtWilde]

what? I dont think so.. why would you not lock your phone?

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 some security steps.

www.pewresearch.org

 

[BB1970]

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).

 

[OrenLindsey]

The thing I can't stop looking at is that garbage screen protector. It's not even designed for the Dynamic island

 

[Fat_Guy]

anyone know which model this is?

I see Dynamic Island, so an iPhone 14 Pro/PM or a iPhone 15 series.

 

[mw360]

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