• eric
      link
      fedilink
      English
      371 year ago

      Device iPhone(47) was removed without ejecting. Please use menu to eject before removal.

    • dantheclammanOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      171 year ago

      Apple Fitness has logged either one skydive or 2000 flights of stairs

  • @LemmyFeed@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    271 year ago

    Damn that shit fell from like 16000 feet and is pretty much undamaged, pretty wild. Even more surprised they actually found it.

    • @abhibeckert@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      28
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      It was a few minutes after takeoff so they were still over a populated area. Hardly surprising that it was found… also if it landed on grass I’m not surprised it’s undamaged.

      • @Swarfega@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        141 year ago

        My Google Pixel Bud fell into a bush the other day. Despite knowing its basic vicinity I still couldn’t find it. I used the find feature which makes it ring loud but still had issues as cars on the road were too noisy. I had to wait until after 8PM to try again. Thankfully I managed to but it really wasn’t easy!

        • dantheclammanOP
          link
          fedilink
          English
          271 year ago

          It’s only if you want to find it that it’s hard to find. You have to pretend you don’t care either way.

      • @LemmyFeed@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        61 year ago

        I know the area it landed in and if it was any more north it could have landed in some swampy wetlands and would potentially be underwater.

      • key
        link
        fedilink
        English
        31 year ago

        Not grass, a bush. Best case scenario short of a vat of jello.

    • @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      271 year ago

      I wonder how quickly a phone reaches its terminal velocity? Falling from 15 feet might be the same as falling from 16,000. I agree that it’s impressive though, I grew up learning to treat electronics very gently, so it’s wild how much more sturdy they’ve gotten.

      Not gonna stop me from buying phone cases, though.

      • @evidences@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        101 year ago

        Ehhh if it didn’t land on anything hard it shouldn’t be surprising it wasn’t damaged. I used to work at an amusement park in the mid '00s and have personally seen those shitty disposable cameras fall hundreds of feet off rollercoasters into bushes and survive unscathed.

  • AutoTL;DRB
    link
    fedilink
    English
    101 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Game designer Sean Bates found an iPhone in a bush Sunday that had fallen from Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 when it lost a part of its fuselage shortly after takeoff.

    Bates posted pictures of his discovery that afternoon, one of which included the screen showing a still-open email with a baggage receipt.

    The phone fell out of the plane when, just a few minutes after takeoff, the Boeing 737 Max 9 explosively decompressed, sending a fuselage plug flying off of the plane and forcing it to turn around and make an emergency landing at Portland International Airport, where it had originally taken off.

    The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed during a Sunday briefing that two phones were recovered after falling from the Boeing 737 Max 9 — one was found on the side of the road and another in a yard.

    On Saturday, the FAA grounded 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 planes pending investigation to see if this was indicative of a broader issue.

    The same day of the incident, The Seattle Times reported that Boeing had requested a safety exemption for an unrelated defect that could cause catastrophic engine damage.


    The original article contains 365 words, the summary contains 191 words. Saved 48%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!