Posted on 01/09/2024 12:08:14 PM PST by Red Badger
A Portland man recovered a cell phone, which is believed to be owned by a passenger of Alaska Airlines flight 1282 after it was sucked out of the plane when the door plug blew open.
Writing on X, the man, Sean Bates, posted a photo of the phone:
“Found an iPhone on the side of the road,” he wrote.
“Still in airplane mode with half a battery and open to a baggage claim for #AlaskaAirlines ASA1282.”
Bates found the phone when he was out walking before posting it on social media, which also showed what appeared to be an Alaska Airlines baggage flight receipt.
The image showed the baggage receipt for the traveler and a piece of a charger still stuck into the phone’s charging port.
Bates claimed the phone was “perfectly” intact with “no scratches on it.”
In a TikTok video, Bates said he was walking in Portland on Sunday after the National Transportation Safety Bureau asked him to report any debris or plane parts.
The door for the plane was also recovered after another Portland resident named Bob found the plug in his yard,
“Thank you, Bob,” NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said at a news conference.
Bates found one of the two cell phones that were recovered.
Last week, Alaska Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing after its passenger window blew open.
The Boeing 737 Max was heading to Ontario, California w, when a large window busted open, causing severe depressurization.
Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci said in a statement:
“Following tonight’s event on Flight 1282, we have decided to take the precautionary step of temporarily grounding our fleet of 65 Boeing 737-9 aircraft.”
“My heart goes out to those who were on this flight – I am so sorry for what you experienced.”
Video footage showed the plane in the air with the window open as oxygen masks angled over passengers’ seats.
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And one didn’t................strapped to the prop of a outboard motor in a tank of water......................
Will the people get their phones back?.....................
The days of live tv. Dangerous to advertisers.
Probably something along the lines of "an i-what?"
This sounds like a perfect test for MythBusters !
Could be an entertaining episode, but reality mythbusters really could have busted nearly all of their myths in about a minute of mathematics.
Doesn’t make for a fun and entertaining TV, but the math can tell you if something is a lie right out of the gate.
I can tell you, the guy claiming a tumbling iphone has a terminal velocity of 100MPH is utterly incorrect.
Kind of weird — imagine having your personal property sucked out of an airplane, only to have it suffer the further indignity of unsolicited internet fame.
And then depending what’s stored on it...
Then maybe — maybe — after it’s been bounced around to who knows where else, the owner is able to get it back.
I hope it all works out. It just goes to show how anyone could be minding his own business simply going from point A to point B, when suddenly nothing is normal.
I try not to get out much.
It landed in a flat spin. 🛫 Unknown if inverted flat spin.
| Measurement | Value | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Floors | 42 | |
| First floor | 25 | ft |
| Other floors | 11 | ft |
| Total drop | 476 | ft |
| Floors to Vt | 4 | |
| Drop at Vt | 432 | ft |
| Drop time | 6 | sec |
| Avg V | 72 | fps |
| Avg V | 49 | mph |
I’ll buy that one is within realm of possibility, don’t knwo what phone that was, its make, weight or dimensions.. so if its heavier and smaller, 50MPH a reasonable assumption...
100MPH terminal velocity? Just not within the realm of reality.
If it was a test where the phone was dropped perfectly vertically and somehow managed to hold that position without tumbling the entire way, (not physically possible, but lets just play it out for arguments sake), then yes it could hit some insanely high velocity, but reality is this thing is going to tumble it is not going to remain vertical and once it tumbles its not going to have any shot at 100MPH terminal velocity.
Obviously tumbling. I found a number of pages that tried to calculate Vt assuming Reynolds Number, drag coefficient, etc, but all depended on it not tumbling which is impossible.
Surprisingly, I couldn’t find any actual drop tests. Lots of people have wondered the same thing. There are also estimates for the deceleration when it hits the ground.
There is no such thing as a set “terminal velocity!”
A typical terminal velocity for a parachutist who delays opening the chute is about 150 miles per hour.
How about the guy who jumped from a high altitude balloon at the edge of space?
He broke the sound barrier.
How come it doesn’t say, “It looks like you’ve had a hard fall”?
If you want on or off the Apple/Mac/iOS Ping List, Freepmail me.
Two hands on the iPhone at all times!
Seems to me, I heard that back in the 60s. 😆
https://youtu.be/_NHq3Yze6s0?si=woNeSa_-q_vfM4NM
Were you wondering how many people would pick up on it?
Wow - that one goes way back!
I saw those commercials in the 70s and 80s. My first watch was a Timex. I got it from my dad when I was about ten.
I get that message sometimes on my Apple Watch, after bumping my hand or arm on something. Then I have to click on it "No, I'm okay". One time I did fall and it called 911, and I immediately apologized to 911 and told them it was an accidental call.
Technology is getting so good that someday a smart phone will arrange your funeral if it senses you died. Or contact relatives that an inheritance is imminent.
American Tourister - The Gorilla Commercial 1970
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I got it. I’m 72 and remember those commercials well.
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