Alaska Airlines flyer’s iPhone found in perfect condition after fall from 16,000 feet

Now, a man has written on X, formerly Twitter, that he found an iPhone, still in airplane mode with half a battery, on the side of a road. He also shared photos of the phone, which had a hard case on for protection.

“Found an iPhone on the side of the road… Still in airplane mode with half a battery and open to a baggage claim for #AlaskaAirlines ASA1282 Survived a 16,000 foot drop perfectly in tact! When I called it in, Zoe at @NTSB said it was the SECOND phone to be found. No door yet,” Seanathan Bates wrote on Monday.

The post has gone viral with 7.3 million views and received lots of comments from incredulous users.
“Their Apple Health statistics for this day must be NUTS “climbed down 1600 flights of stairs…”” an X user commented. “Where did you find the phone? I live near Barnes and 217 where they think the door was lost,” said another. “How is this possible? I’ve dropped my iPhone off the kitchen table and it didn’t make it,” wrote a third. “All I want to know is: What brand the case and screen protector was on that thing?!” another user wrote.

“When a person drops a phone under the seats of Rogers arena, it takes a hard search and like an hour to find it in the mess underneath. Sometimes you can’t find it at all. Yet here two phones fall from the sky, land perfect and are found?” another netizen wrote. “Of course it survived it was in airplane mode? Like what else is the mode for if not for turning the phone into an airplane when dropped????” another user posted.

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