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