A man on social media claims to have found an iPhone \u201cperfectly intact\u201d after falling 16,000 feet from an Alaska Airlines flight that suffered a mid-air blowout.<\/p>\n
Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was forced to make an emergency landing on Friday (5 January) in Oregon after a window and chunk of fuselage blew out shortly after takeoff.<\/p>\n
Yet a user on X shared a post on Sunday claiming to have found an iPhone on the ground still in airplane mode \u2013 likely sucked out of the plane\u2019s blown-out window.<\/p>\n
READ MORE! What celebs take home in the $500,000 Golden Globes goodie bags<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cFound an iPhone on the side of the road\u2026 Still in airplane mode with half a battery and open to a baggage claim for #AlaskaAirlines ASA1282 Survived a 16,000 foot drop perfectly in tact!\u201d @SeanSafyre<\/a> posted on X.<\/p>\n The man, listed as Sean Bates on the platform, added that he reported the phone to the NTSB, which told him it \u201cwas the second phone to be found.\u201d<\/p>\n The latest iPhone accessory<\/a> is a romantic throwback to a golden era.<\/p>\n Found an iPhone on the side of the road\u2026 Still in airplane mode with half a battery and open to a baggage claim for #AlaskaAirlines<\/a> ASA1282 Survived a 16,000 foot drop perfectly in tact!<\/p>\n When I called it in, Zoe at @NTSB<\/a> said it was the SECOND phone to be found. No door yetpic.twitter.com\/CObMikpuFd<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Seanathan Bates (@SeanSafyre) January 7, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n In another post, Bates shared a picture of the iPhone with a broken-off charger plug still inside it.<\/p>\n Bates also posted a follow-up video to TikTok, sharing how he was out walking when he found the iPhone.<\/p>\n \u201cI was, of course, a little skeptical at first. I was thinking this could just be thrown out of a car or someone dropped it while they were jogging\u2026 but it was still pretty clean. No scratches on it, sitting under a bush, and it didn\u2019t have a screen lock on it,\u201d he recalled.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cSo I opened it up, and it was in airplane mode with a travel confirmation and baggage claim for Alaska 1282.\u201d<\/p>\n It may be hard to believe, but there\u2019s a gold iPhone 15 case<\/a> that costs more than a motorcycle.<\/p>\n <\/a>SeanSafyre \/ X<\/p>\n The good news is that both phones found were turned over to the NTSB, which vowed to reunite them with their owners.<\/p>\n The NTSB also revealed that the lost door plug was found on Sunday near Portland by a school teacher, who discovered it in his backyard and send two photos to the safety board.<\/p>\n Investigators now have the task of examining the plug, which measures 26 by 48 inches and weight 63 pounds (28kg), to establish how it broke free.<\/p>\n The post iPhone survives 16,000-ft drop from Alaska Airlines flight \u201cperfectly intact\u201d<\/a> appeared first on Supercar Blondie<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A man on social media claims to have found an iPhone \u201cperfectly intact\u201d after falling 16,000 feet from an Alaska Airlines flight that suffered a mid-air blowout. Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was forced to make an emergency landing on Friday (5 January) in Oregon after a window and chunk of fuselage blew out shortly after …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":44370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}