“After falling 9,300 feet from a Beechcraft Bonanza airplane, a lost iPhone not only reported its location but laid out a map where owner Ben Wilson could find it,” Judith McGinnis reports for The Times Record News. “Even better, it could still make and receive calls. ‘It was by the side of the road south of Jacksboro, under a mesquite tree,’ said Wilson, chuckling. ‘The donkey pointed out where it was.'”
“It is a real Texas story. Monday afternoon Wilson, owner of Gas Corp. of America and pilot Will Warnock were on their way back from Houston to Kickapoo Airport when pressure change caused a door latch on the passenger side to give way by 3 inches,” McGinnis reports. “‘The pressure popped and a newspaper flew out but I didn’t see the phone go. After we got back I looked for it on the floor (of the plane) and in my briefcase but couldn’t find it,’ Wilson said.”
McGinnis reports, “‘It was in one piece, scratched a bit on the corners but it still worked,’ said Wilson, as surprised as he was happy about the durable mophie battery charger case. ‘It hit the corners a bit and but it’s just fine,’ said Kidwell. ‘The only missing part is the battery.’”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: For an iPhone plus a Mophie battery case, a mere 9,300 feet is nothing!
Not that it didn’t “bend,” either.
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iPhone 4 plunges 1,000 feet from airplane – still works perfectly – March 23, 2011
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Dan K.,” “Gumby” and “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
“Kickapoo airport”? Really? Was there no better name?
Ah, Texas… 😉
I would argue that you can’t get a better name than Kickapoo airport.
I would love to see the names of some of the waypoints near that airport!
Stomp-a-turd was already taken.
I see a lawsuit coming. A name that encourages people to kick poos. /s. 🖖😀⌚️
Yeah, well, I bet you can drop an Amazon Fire HD 10,000 feet and it’ll still work…
Perhaps. But nobody would care.
Dropping like Amazon profits?
How could you tell?
BOOM !
You just can’t get any profound advertising better than this…worth millions in money not spent! This should be on a commercial soon! Beat that drop test, Samsung!
That beats any Scratch ‘n’ Dent experiments at the Apple test labs.
MDN take: NOTE that it didn’t “bend,” either.
There, fixed that.
Move over MacBook Air, the iPhone Air is coming through!
Ginger snaps!!! what a lucky day for the donkey!
Come on Apple! When are you going to add terminal velocity to your specification pages? It’s about time the poor engineer that has to calculate this for every Apple device finally gets his do.
Timex watch: “Takes a licking and keeps on ticking!”
Apple iPhone: “Humongous fall, no problem at all!”
Like I said Tom Brady:
Be careful what you do with your new iPhone! It ain’t gone break like that Samsung POS you had.
Who says Nokias are stronger?