{"id":46118,"date":"2024-01-09T17:10:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T07:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=46118"},"modified":"2024-01-09T17:10:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T07:10:17","slug":"iphone-survives-16000-foot-fall-from-alaska-airlines-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=46118","title":{"rendered":"iPhone survives 16000-foot fall from Alaska Airlines flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Now that&#8217;s what you call airplane mode &#8212; an iPhone that plummeted 16,000 feet (5,000 meters) from an Alaska Airlines flight landed without a single crack in the screen and even a battery still half-charged.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The phone was sucked out of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on Friday when a fuselage panel blew off, leaving a gaping hole. The passenger plane made an emergency landing shortly after, with all aboard safe.<\/p>\n<p>A few items, reportedly including AirPods and a boy&#8217;s shirt, made more dramatic landings after shooting out of the suddenly depressurized cabin.<\/p>\n<p>Amid a search for debris, a man named Sean Bates in the northwestern state of Washington found an iPhone on the side of the road, appearing to belong to one of the passengers.<\/p>\n<p>A photo of the device posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday showed the intact screen and an emailed $70 baggage receipt. The battery is shown charged to 44 percent and the smartphone remains on flight mode.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the port, where the terminal of the charger protrudes after being ripped from the rest of the cord, the phone appears untouched.<\/p>\n<p>In a follow up TikTok post, Bates said he&#8217;d found the phone &#8220;pretty clean, no scratches on it, sitting under a bush.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that&#8217;s what you call airplane mode &#8212; an iPhone that plummeted 16,000 feet (5,000 meters) from an Alaska Airlines flight landed without a single crack in the screen and even a battery still half-charged. The phone was sucked out of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on Friday when a fuselage panel blew off, leaving a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-46118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-iphone-survives-16000-foot-fall-from-alaska-airlines-flight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}