Jeannine Buck took this selfie, using her iPhone moments before she
accidentally dropped it out the window.
accidentally dropped it out the window.
Posted on 08/08/2016 11:27:07 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Almost everyone knows that sinking feeling when their beloved smartphone slips from their grasp and falls victim to the laws of gravity. The seconds between falling, hitting the ground and picking the phone up again to assess the damage can seem like an eternity.
For one Abbotsford woman, that ordeal took over three hours after she dropped her phone 2,500 feet from the small Cessna 1-40 feet she was riding in on Monday night.
One minute Jeannine Buck was taking pictures of Stanley Park out the window of the plane.
A moment later, the phone was tumbling towards the forest floor, hitting tree branches on its way down.
"My first thought was: 'What? Did that really just happen?"
Buck got to the park a few hours later and was able to track the phone to a general area, using the 'Find My iPhone' app on a friend's phone.
They called her phone and were able to track it down by following the sound of her ringtone – Otis Redding whistling his hit song 'Sitting on the Dock of the Bay.'
"I had just changed the ringtone [that] morning from Stayin' Alive. I've since changed in back in honour of the phone's will to live," she said.
The phone had only minor damage and still works fine.
"It was an absolute miracle."
Buck said her friend had warned her not to get her phone too close to the window.
"I had no idea the wind would grab it from my hand. Lesson learned for sure," she said. "I won't be taking pictures on a plane beside an open window ever again, that's for certain!"
This was one of the last photos Jeannine Buck took with her iPhone before dropping it out the window of the Cessna plane she was riding, to the forest of Stanley Park below.
The phone in question, after it was found Monday night.
That’s a “Hefty Beany Beefy” Phone.
Two things:
1. When holding something of value the way she did, it’s always on a neck or wrist strap.
2. Used to be that cell phones were designed to withstand a drop of 4 feet onto concrete. This pushes that, though, truth be told, I suspect smart phones have a lot lower terminal velocity than a human body, so it may not have been going all that fast when it hit the first bunch of pine needles and hit what may have been a very cushy forest floor.
Still, I wouldn’t want to try it with a human body. Well, not a LIVE one.
Jeannine needs to get out more, and yet keep hands and belongings inside the damn vehicle at all times from here forward.
Slowed down by tree branches and finally landing in a thick bed of decayed leaves. That is was not damaged is far less a surprise than it was actually found, though since it was turned on, calling it would sure help.
Mine has cracks all over it from numerous falls to the floor, but it still works.
Iphone screens are replaceable. Around $100 to have it done or about $70 if you are handy and do it yourself.
Iphone screens are replaceable. Around $100 to have it done or about $70 if you are handy and do it yourself.
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My phone’s 3 foot drop from shirt pocket to the bottom of the toilet - not so lucky
“It was an absolute miracle.”
No it was terminal velocity and a softened landing. If it fell on concrete and still worked, that would be a miracle.
> Caption on selfie photo above: "Jeannine Buck took this selfie, using her iPhone moments before she accidentally dropped it out the window."
Ummm, that's horsecrap. Look at the reflections in her sunglasses. The plane is clearly ON THE GROUND with a building clearly visible a hundred yards away. NOT IN THE AIR.
So at best, that caption is crap. Makes me wonder about the story itself -- clickbait for a blog, perhaps??? Just sayin'...
Of course, that doesn’t say anything pro or con about the survivability of an iPhone at 2500 feet. Just saying that the photo doesn’t support its caption.
Same would have happened to her, buy she missed the lake in her last picture.
I guess it might hinge on how long your definition of a "moment" is. . . and how many of them you can cram into the plural of moments, then how long was did it take to take off and climb to 2,500 feet and do something really stupid, such as holding your expensive smartphone out the window of the plane one handed to awkwardly take a photo. OOPS! ;^)
I thought the same thing. . . had she found something necessary to take with the phone outside then, no way would it have been found at the bottom of that lake.
Losing a phone is nothing to cry about. I was reading another article this morning about a man in London who stuck his head out a window and a train took it off. Now that's something to cry about (the other passengers sitting near him cried out). A phone can be replaced.
Poor Otis.
I lost a cell phone in a snowbank at my brother-in-laws in Anchorage during Christmas one year and he found it during spring thaw and amazingly it still worked. Amazing.
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