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Someone Found An iPhone That Fell 16,000 Feet From That Alaska Airlines Flight, And The Creepiest Part Is The Ripped Off Charging Cable

This is like a Steve Jobs miracle.

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.

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Luckily, everyone was okay, but some items like phones and shirts (!) were sucked out of the aircraft.

a ripped-out door on an Alaska Airlines flight

A man named Sean Bates found one such iPhone on the side of a road in Oregon.

Just walking down Barnes Road pic.twitter.com/P3eHITAnpY

— Seanathan Bates (@SeanSafyre) January 8, 2024
Twitter: @SeanSafyre

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
Twitter: @SeanSafyre

The only unusual thing is that the charging cable is stuck in the port where it was literally yanked out of the plane:

Twitter: @SeanSafyre

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.

An Alaska Airlines plane on the tarmac

And if you're wondering, they finally found the door in an Oregon teacher's backyard.

a plane missing a door with a tarp over the opening

Ultimately, this whole thing is terrifying, so I'll focus on the important question: Who made the case?

Who makes the phone case? https://t.co/rG7M71hR8n

— Jon Ostrower (@jonostrower) January 8, 2024
Twitter: @jonostrower