The iPhone was on the ground, in airplane mode, with its battery half full. The screen, fully intact, showed a $70 receipt for two checked bags on Alaska Airlines flight 1282. A social media user by ...

Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone survived a massive 16,000-feet drop from an aircraft, ironically when it was in airplane mode. If you ever fear skydiving, you now have an iPhone to draw inspiration ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How many of us have cracked our phone screens from merely the slightest drop? It’s a frustrating experience to be sure. But one ...

An Oregon resident claimed he found an iPhone that fell 16,000 feet from Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 – and it was still in perfectly good condition. The Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft made an emergency ...

On Saturday, one of Alaska Airlines' planes had a window and fuselage blown out midair, forcing an emergency landing. Despite the shock, no one got hurt. While the story itself is incredible, a post ...

On Sunday, game developer Seanathan Bates discovered a working iPhone that fell 16,000 from Alaska Airlines flight 1282 on Friday. Flight 1282 suffered an explosive decompression event when a door ...

Twitter/X user Sean Bates posted on Sunday that he’d discovered an iPhone “on the side of the road” that was still set to airplane mode. When Bates picked it up, they noticed an email for a baggage ...

Last week’s Alaska Airlines incident—when a sheet-metal door plug fell off a Boeing 737 Max 9 plane at around 16,000 feet—was a scary reminder that small errors can have massive consequences. But the ...

The iPhone went out this hole in the fuselage. On Friday night, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 en route to Ontario, California had a door plug come off in flight. No one was killed, and only one person ...

Among the harrowing details of the blown-off fuselage panel that triggered a sudden decompression event on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, one revelation seemed to defy the laws of physics: One of the ...

Back in January, a fully intact iPhone was discovered along the side of the road after plummeting 16,000 feet when a door blew off an Alaska Airlines flight. At the time, we pointed out that it was ...

How many of us have cracked our phone screens from merely the slightest drop? It’s a frustrating experience to be sure. But one iPhone fell and hit the ground from a staggering 16,000-foot drop from ...