Phone Survives 16,000-Foot Drop From Dramatic Alaska Airlines In-Flight Incident: REPORT
- A functioning iPhone, found on the side of the road after a mid-air incident on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, may provide crucial evidence for investigators.
- The iPhone was in airplane mode with half a battery, a baggage claim ticket, and a piece of a broken charger still inside. It fell from the plane at 16,000 feet and remained intact.
- Two additional cell phones were found and turned in to investigators, who will use them to aid in their investigation.
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iPhone Survives Rapid Decompression, 16,000-Foot Fall on Alaska Air Flight 182
Move over, Gulf War Gameboy - there's a new piece of indestructible technology on the block. On Friday, Alaska Airlines Flight 182 suffered a potentially catastrophic explosive decompression event as a door plug spontaneously blew off the plane mid-flight. Thankfully, no one was seriously injured, but the incident did leave us with a rather unbelievable story: an iPhone that was sucked out of the door-shaped hole on the plane survived the ordeal…
iPhone found after surviving nearly 5km fall from Alaska Airlines flight
Sky News host Caleb Bond says he “just can’t get over” the iPhone found from an Alaska Airlines flight, which had to land after the door flew off mid-flight, that had survived the fall. “I just can’t get over this,” Mr Bond said. “A man in Oregon in the US, he found an iPhone that belonged to a passenger from that Alaska Airlines flight that had to make that emergency landing after the door flew off. “He found the phone, completely intact. “You …
iPhone found after surviving nearly 5km fall from Alaska Airlines flight
Sky News host Caleb Bond says he “just can’t get over” the iPhone found from an Alaska Airlines flight, which had to land after the door flew off mid-flight, that had survived the fall. “I just can’t get over this,” Mr Bond said. “A man in Oregon in the US, he found an iPhone that belonged to a passenger from that Alaska Airlines flight that had to make that emergency landing after the door flew off. “He found the phone, completely intact. “You …
An iPhone that fell 5,000 meters through the hole in the Alaska Airlines Boeing survives and continues to work
A drop from almost 5,000 meters and it's still working. It's the story of a mobile phone that fell from the Alaska Airlines Boeing that opened mid-flight on Friday...
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