iPhone 12 Pro Max iPhone that fell 16,000 feet from the Alaskan Airline found.

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[Reverend Benny]

No passcode or no automatic lock enabled...hopefully this example of stupidity will get some people out there to think twice about protecting their devices.
It shouldn't be possible to turn these things off.

 

[transmaster]

No passcode or no automatic lock enabled...hopefully this example of stupidity will get some people out there to think twice about protecting their devices.
It shouldn't be possible to turn these things off.

According to reports from the plane's cabin these iPhones were sucked out of the hands of people using them. But you do have a point. One of these recovered iPhones had the charging cable attached and the USB-A side was ripped off.

 

[RoadWarrior56]

My daughter lives in Portland. Remains of the airplane door fell in the back yard of a former work associate of my son-in-law. It fell into a group of trees and I have seen the photo online. The iPhone apparently fell across the Columbia River in Vancouver, WA. What case did that iPhone have on it?

 

[transmaster]

They are pointing out on "X" that if the health monitoring functions were turned on the NTSB might be able to get some data from this iPhone.

 

[transmaster]

My daughter lives in Portland. Remains of the airplane door fell in the back yard of a former work associate of my son-in-law. It fell into a group of trees and I have seen the photo online. The iPhone apparently fell across the Columbia River in Vancouver, WA. What case did that iPhone have on it?

There are several thousand people asking the same Question on "X". I can tell you it isn't an OtterBox Defender.

 

[transmaster]

Here is a picture of the torn out cable in the above iPhone. This one clipped off at the lightning plug.

 

[Weaselboy]

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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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