iPhone Survives 16,000-Foot Drop from Plane

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Credit: @SeanSafyre

Here’s a story that you don’t hear often: just after a plane took off from the Portland International Airport, there was a sudden depressurization in the cabin that caused an iPhone to be expelled from the flight. Thankfully, all the passengers and crew members survived as the plane returned to its departure spot safely.

Lucky for Sean Bates, a resident from Vancouver, Washington, he was able to find the missing iPhone, and amazingly, the phone was still intact as there was no noticeable damage to the screen, granted it was protected by a case and it landed on a soft-ground area.

So how can such a fragile, electronic device survive such a fall? If you read a lot about physics, on a high level, when a light object is falling at a very high speed, the impact force on the object when it lands will be quite minimal. You can read more details on Wired’s piece that explains terminal velocity. 

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