An iPhone fell from an Alaska Airlines flight 5,000 meters above sea level and what no one expected happened.

On Saturday and Sunday, citizens began searching the outskirts of Portland (Oregon) for a panel of an Alaska Airlines plane that had separated on a flight to Ontario (California) on Friday night, opening a hole in the fuselage and causing an emergency landing. The panel appeared at the back of a teacher’s house on Sunday afternoon, but what searchers found were two mobile phones apparently left behind by passengers from the plane, which crashed while flying at about 16,000 feet. 5,000 meters). One of the iPhones was found working and in good condition. Images tweeted by Sinathan Bates showed a check-in receipt for a plane passenger’s suitcase on his screen.

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At the bottom of the image you can see that the charger cable is broken, with the plug still attached to the phone, as Bates himself published in another message on the X social network.

Bates himself explains what happened in a video he later recorded: “I went for a walk today and found an Alaska Airlines passenger’s phone on the ground. What better excuse to go on a ride this afternoon than when the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) asked people to report anything that looks like it fell from the recent Alaska Airlines crash. Fortunately, no one was injured or pulled inside. But some things were lost,” begins his story.

“They were still looking for the door, and I found a phone lying on the side of the road that had apparently fallen 16,000 feet. And I was, of course, a little skeptical at first, thinking he might have fallen out of the car,” he continues. “I found out. It was still quite clean. No scratches on it, it was under a tree and it didn’t have a screen lock so I opened it and it was in airplane mode with a travel confirmation and a baggage receipt for flight Alaska 1282 so I had to go make a call. NTSB.”

In the images released by Bates, you can see an NTSB officer who went to the location where the phone was found. According to ABC television, the NTSB has confirmed the story. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homandy said at a news conference in Portland on Sunday that two phones that apparently belonged to passengers on the Alaska Airlines flight were found, one on the side of the road and the other in the yard of a home. , and they were going. to return to their owners. He did not say anything about the condition of the phone.

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