An iPhone survives a 16,000 foot fall (1 Viewer)

[Dennis Nicholls]

Remember the plane whose door plug blew out?

A iPhone was sucked out the opening and fell 16,000 feet to the ground.

iPhone survives 16,000-foot fall after door plug blows off Alaska Air flight 1282

Still-working iPhone is one of two discovered after the airline accident, says NTSB.

arstechnica.com

It still works.

 

[Jonathan Perregaux]

I wonder, did this feature kick in? Or is iOS programmed to go... bro, what 16,000 feet?! Seriously? We'll call the morgue instead.

 

[Jason Goodmanson]

Something extra unnerving for me is the little bit of charger cable that's still in the phone.