A fall from almost 5,000 meters and it still works. It is the story of a mobile phone that fell from the Alaska Airlines Boeing that opened mid-flight on Friday in the United States and that would outrage anyone who has seen his cell phone break just one meter from the ground.
An Internet user said on Sunday on X, formerly Twitter, that he had found an iPhone on the shoulder of a road near Portlandin the state of Oregon, where on the screen you could see an email from the airline about luggage.
“Still in airplane mode, with the battery half full” wrote Seanathan Bates in X, fascinated by having found a device that had “survived a fall of about 5,000 meters perfectly intact.”
Found an iPhone on the side of the road… Still in airplane mode with half a battery and open to a baggage claim for #AlaskaAirlines ASA1282 Survived at 16,000 foot drop perfectly in tact!
When I called it in, Zoe at @NTSB said it was the SECOND phone to be found. No door yet😅 pic.twitter.com/CObMikpuFd
— Seanathan Bates (@SeanSafyre) January 7, 2024
He posted a photo of the device working without problems.
“Thank you for your help,” he wrote on the same network on Monday. Jennifer Homendy, director of the US Transportation Safety Agency (NTSB), which is investigating the incident. “I would very much like to meet you.”
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