Falling from a Boeing 737 emergency landing: iPhone survives 5,000-meter fall unscathed

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Half-full battery, flight mode and not a single scratch: in the US, an iPhone apparently survived virtually unscathed a fall from a height of 5,000 meters from the Boeing 737 that made an emergency landing on Friday. A man in the northwestern US state of Washington wrote on the online service Tiktok on Sunday after finding the iPhone, believed to belong to one of the passengers, that he found the mobile phone “fairly clean and without any scratches in the bushes”.

Apple’s cell phone was apparently sucked out of the plane when part of the cabin wall flew out shortly after takeoff. A photo of the device that the finder posted on online service Apart from the charging cable connection point, the phone appeared intact.

Game developer Seanathan Bates, who found the phone, wrote: Perfectly survived a fall from 5,000 meters!”

Already the second phone to fall

The Washington man said he contacted the NTSB after the discovery. She told him it was the second phone from the machine that someone had found.

After the ‘hellish flight’, a passenger said a man’s phone was ripped out of his hand due to the draft on the plane.

Agency chief Jennifer Homendy said at a news conference that the NTSB “will review the phones and then return them.” It is “a great stroke of luck” that the technical defect that led to the plane’s emergency landing “did not end in tragedy.”

Problem Boeings have loose screws

Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 had taken off from Portland in the northwestern United States on Friday and was headed to Ontario, California, when the cabin section came loose. The plane then turned around and made an emergency landing in Portland about twenty minutes later. No one was injured.

Following the incident, the FAA ordered immediate inspections of approximately 170 Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft and banned some from flying until they were completed. Airlines around the world have taken planes out of service, leading to dozens of flight cancellations this weekend.

During inspections of the problem airline’s plane, US carrier United Airlines found loose screws on the fuselage part that had broken off during a flight a few days ago. A United spokeswoman did not say Monday how many planes had the problem. The airline has a total of 79 aircraft of this type. (AFP/kes)

Source: Blick