Two cell phones were recovered from the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 jet that had an inflight explosive episode as it flew across Oregon over the weekend.
The incident occurred on Friday just as the plane was making its way to Ontario, California.
During a news conference on Sunday, National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy confirmed that the devices were recovered by residents in the area where the door plug fell from the structure.
“Some community members found a cell phone in a yard and a cell phone on the side of the road and contacted us and handed them in,” she said.
One of the devides, which appears to be an iPhone, still appeared to be completely intact and functional after it dropped from 16,000 feet in the sky. The cell phone still had part of a charger attached to it.
One of those residents appeared to have posted his discovery to X, formerly Twitter, writing, “found an iPhone on the side of the road… Still in airplane mode with half a battery and open to baggage claim for #AlaskaAirlines ASA1282.”
New high score on that classic iOS game where you had to throw your device in the air and catch it
Aha, there’s source of the problem. Those phones weren’t set to airplane mode.
“found an iPhone on the side of the road… Still in airplane mode with half a battery and open to baggage claim for #AlaskaAirlines ASA1282.”
Stupid reality, ruining my joke.
It had me laughing, but I also thought that you meant the non-recovered or destroyed phones weren’t set to airplane mode.
Sadly, Apple didn’t buy them a new plane.
from what I hear from my classmate’s experiences, the most crucial information here would be the screen.
no mention in the news. cracked screen for sure.
In another article, they cited this tweet with an image of the iPhone.
https://twitter.com/SeanSafyre/status/1744138937239822685
Shockingly, the screen is intact!
The only iPhone to be dropped and not get a cracked screen fell out of an airplane!
nice find! thank you!
I wonder if the charge cable was able to slow ot down or something
Just to be clear, in case anyone thinks that’s an impressive height: it’s the same if a smartphone falls from 50 meters or 5000 meters.
Someone calculated it here: Terminal velocity is about 17.5 m/s or 39.15 mph. The phone reaches that speed in 1.8 seconds after falling 15.6 metres.
So the height is quite irrelevant. The phone landed in soft grass so it’s not surprising that it’s undamaged. And the brand of that phone is irrelevant too. Every phone would survive that.
https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-terminal-velocity-of-a-falling-iPhone?top_ans=40231160
Aligns well with my hypothesis: Apple designs their products for Americans, who treat them rough.
Can we talk about how the phone did not have a screen lock? What?
Let me complain here about the screen lock settings on iOS.
The iOS settings for the phone’s screen auto-lock has 30-seconds, 1-min, 2-min, 3-min, 4-min, 5-min and never.
There are many scenarios for me where 5 minutes is just too damn short. Ergo, I’ll never use the 1-4-min settings. This is just a dumb set of options IMHO. Why is there not a 10/15/20-min setting?
So, I end up setting it to never auto-lock as this annoys me somewhat less. Still quite annoying, but this would explain why my phone might still be unlocked after being blasted out the new airlock.
Face ID keeps your phone unlocked as long as you’re looking at the screen. Does that not do it for you?
