In case you haven’t been terrorized by this news, the door from an Alaska Airlines flight blew out 10 minutes after takeoff in Portland, Oregon on Friday.
Luckily, everyone was okay, but some items like phones and shirts (!) were sucked out of the aircraft.
A man named Sean Bates found one such iPhone on the side of a road in Oregon.
As you can see, it’s fully intact (with battery life!) after dropping 16,000 feet from the sky:
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😅 pic.twitter.com/CObMikpuFd
— Seanathan Bates (@SeanSafyre) January 7, 2024
The only unusual thing is that the charging cable is stuck in the port where it was literally yanked out of the plane:
In case you didn’t see it, there was a broken-off charger plug still inside it! Thing got *yanked* out the door(Sorry I didn’t get a better pic before handing it over haha) pic.twitter.com/tMQ7XQNHeW
— Seanathan Bates (@SeanSafyre) January 8, 2024
The New York Times reports that Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration have given airlines instructions on how to inspect their 737 Max 9 planes.
And if you’re wondering, they finally found the door in an Oregon teacher’s backyard.
Ultimately, this whole thing is terrifying, so I’ll focus on the important question: Who made the case?
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