[Swordmaker]

"Actually, there isn't a scratch on it!" — Jeannine Buck, owner of the iPhone, in a comment made in reply to the article.

[Jim W N]

That’s a “Hefty Beany Beefy” Phone.

[Mr. Douglas]

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.

[T-Bone Texan]

"..."It was an absolute miracle."..."

Jeannine needs to get out more, and yet keep hands and belongings inside the damn vehicle at all times from here forward.

[HerrBlucher]

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.

[Swordmaker]

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[SES1066]

Failures of Science Fiction! In all those years of reading SF, I never read a story about using a phone to take pictures and then finding that phone using another phone! Boy, all those authors were so unimaginative, just going on and on about space ships, aliens and something called computers!

[Boogieman]

“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.

[dayglored]

Now wait just a cotton-pickin' minute.

> 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'...

[Larry Lucido]

Poor Otis.

[Balata]

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.