The phone still had a baggage receipt email open.
  • LemmyFeed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    304·
    11 months 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.worldEnglish
      281·
      11 months 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.eeEnglish
        162·
        11 months 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!

      • LemmyFeed@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        11 months 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.

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          63·
          11 months ago

          Terminal velocity: It can only fall so fast, no matter what. Objects don’t continue accelerating faster and faster. At some point, they’re going as fast as they can go given conditions.

          In other words, there may be do difference in dropping it out a 3-story window, 16,000 feet, or 120,000 feet.

      • keyAEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

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

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      26·
      11 months 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.worldEnglish
        8·
        11 months 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;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    9·
    11 months 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!

  • moistclump@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Can someone please calculate the terminal velocity of this bad boy. Also, an info on what case it was in?