An iPhone survived a 16,000-foot plunge after being sucked out of an Alaska Airlines flight that lost its door plug.
Oregon residents Sean Bates said he was taking a walk when he came across the Apple device, which was one of two cellphones that burst out of a gaping hole on a distressed Boeing 737 MAX 9 on Friday.
“Found iPhone on the side of the road… Still in airplane mode with half battery and open to baggage claim for #AlaskaAirlines ASA128,” Bates wrote on Xwhere he posted an image of the phone.
“Survived the 16,000 foot drop perfectly!” he added.
He said he notified the National Transportation Safety Board of his discovery and was informed that it was the second phone recovered from the flight.
“In case you didn’t see it, there’s a broken charger plug still inside! Thing had *snapped* out the door (Sorry I didn’t get a better picture before handing it in haha),” Bates wrote after his discovery on Barnes Road.
“I naturally have to assume that Airplane mode helped it survive the fall,” he added with a laughing emoji.
Sean Bates shows an intact iPhone that fell 16,000 feet from an Alaska Airlines plane that lost its door plug. X/Seanathan Bates
Bates too post a video where he explained how he found the phone after the NTSB asked the public to be on the lookout for items that might fall from the plane.
“Thankfully, no one was injured or suffocated but they lost some items. They’re still looking for the door, and I found the phone on the side of the road that seems to have fallen 16,000 feet,” he said.
“I was of course a bit skeptical at first. I thought this could just be thrown off the car,” Bates said, adding that it had no scratches on it.
“It didn’t have a screen lock on it so I opened it and it was in airplane mode with travel confirmation and baggage claim for Alaska 1282. So I had to go call the NTSB,” he added.
“I naturally have to assume that Airplane mode helped it survive the fall,” wrote Bates (right) on X. X/Seanathan Bates
Social media users were baffled as the iPhone that appeared in the case with the screen exposed, was not affected.
“How can this happen? I’ve put my iPhone off the kitchen table and it won’t work,” wrote one user.
“When someone drops a phone under the Rogers Arena seats, it takes a difficult search and like an hour to find it in the mess underneath. Sometimes you can’t find it at all,” wrote another.
Bates told the NTSB of his unlikely discovery after the agency asked the public to be alert for falling debris. X/Seanathan Bates
“Yet here two phones fell from the sky, landed perfectly and were found?” he added.
Bates replied: “It is most likely that we discovered this phone before we discovered the large door panel.”
Another cell phone was found in the back of the house.
Analyzing the plug is one of several aspects the board is expected to do while investigating the terrifying incident. Instagram/@strawberrvy via REUTE
As of Monday morning, Bates’ post from Sunday had more than 10 million views.
NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy on Sunday said the door plug was found by a school teacher, two days after the plane with 177 people on board had to make an emergency landing on a flight from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California.
The agency previously appealed to residents and business owners to check any doorbell recordings they may have, look in their backyards or climb onto their roofs for doorknobs or other items from the plane.
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