16,000 feet may seem like a lot, but not for an iPhone!
Any incredible story featuring an iPhone can always be surpassed by another iPhone. This time, Apple’s most popular device showed that the toughness features the brand so promotes might be insufficient. This iPhone survived intact after falling from a plane at 16,000 feet.
This discovery was made public by Seanathan Bates via his account He found the iPhone on the side of a street in Portland, Oregon.
I found an iPhone on the side of the road… Still in airplane mode with half battery and open to baggage claim for #AlaskaAirlines ASA1282 Survived a 16,000 foot fall perfectly!
When I called him, Zoé at @NTSB said it was the SECOND phone to find. No door yet😅 pic.twitter.com/CObMikpuFd
– Seanathan Bates (@SeanSafyre) January 7, 2024
iPhone remained unharmed after 16,000 foot fall
According to information confirmed so far, This iPhone fell from Alaska Airlines Flight ASA1282, losing one of the doorsjust after taking off from a runway in Portland.
Given the discovery, Seanathan Bates explained that the iPhone was in airplane mode, the battery was about 50 percent charged, and it was open for baggage claim at an Alaska airline.
But what’s more, this iPhone had a hard protective case that allowed it to withstand a 16,000 foot drop. With this feat, it surpassed the iPhone, which had overcome the most shocking fall so far.
In late 2020, a pilot reported that his iPhone fell during a takeoff maneuver, at around 1,000 feet altitude, also with an apparently sturdy case.
Bates reported the cell phone missing to the National Transportation Safety Board and, according to an NTSB representative, this was the second cell phone recovered after the accident on January 5, 2023. That day, a window and part of the fuselage were torn off the flight and are still under investigation.
At this point, the iPhone can already testify to its resistance to falls from meters high, meters and months underwater and surely to many other situations that will reveal themselves at any time.