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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I would guess that an iPhone would hit terminal velocity within about 100 feet or so.
Once it hits terminal velocity, it doesn’t matter if it falls 100 feet or 16,000 feet. It will still hit the ground with the same velocity.
Looks like it landed in some soft weeds....................
The flat shape of the phone would cause it to start rotating longitudinally as it fell, most likely. That would mitigate any excessive acceleration.
Steve Kelley’s cartoon today has a man holding a cell phone at an Alaska Airlines counter at the airport requesting, “A seat as far as possible from the door plug, please...I just bought this phone.”
Takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
Well terminal velocity probably isn’t horrible, given it was probably tumbling and the size of an iphone, my bet is its terminal velocity is about 30 MPH.. havent run the math, but that would be my guess that it would be around that.
So provided it landed on grass or other soft surface, and depending the angle it hit, the fact it survived the fall while impressive, isn’t really miraculous.
And just like that, a whole new advertising campaign presents itself...
THIS is an "open window."
My phone falls off the counter and the screen shatters.
I wonder what Galileo would say about it.
“...terminal velocity is about 30 MPH”
But they ALWAYS land on the screen. Just like buttered toast hitting the floor.
I’d guess closer to 100 MPH, though. Still an amazing testament to Apple engineering.
Older people will remember the John Cameron Swayze Timex watch commercials ending with “It takes a licking and keeps on ticking.”
Nope, no way its terminal velocity is 100 MPH.. not a chance in hell.
Human being’s terminal velocity is about 120 MPH.
Wind resistence on a tumbling Iphone which ways about 1/2 a lbs, with the surface area it has, no way on God’s green earth in free fall it got anywhere close to 100 MPH.
I am assuming its TUMBLING, which it almost certainly would be.
There is absolutely no way a 1/2 lb item with a suface area of an iphone tumbling and falling freely got anywhere near 100MPH.. Only time it would have been moving that fast was probably for a few seconds after it exited the plane and it bled off the velocity it inherited from the jet.
Not a chance in hell it fell to earth at anything close to 100MPH.
for reference, this is actual footage from a phone falling off a building... as you can see, its tumbling, which is what a phone would do in free fall... and no way its hitting 100MPH terminal velocity, no matter how far up it was dropped, wind resistance of something with the surface area of a smart phone and weighing around 1/2 a lbs isn’t going to get anywhere near 100 MPH
https://www.popsugar.com/tech/iphone-falls-from-skyscraper-37273652
That's good news.
Is that an "SOS" message in the corner?
I consulted my list. I have just two entries for 1282.
1282 is "good news" (basar, glad tidings) spelled out in full.
בשר
Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound:
That's Flight 1282 for you. It's like something right out of the Sound of Music, because
"When the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window."Spelled in full (the letters bet sin resh):
בית שין ריש
(In case anyone is interested. 502 for the normal word value. )
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All in the timing with the SOD going missing. 🤔
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