The iPhone that fell from the Alaska Airlines flight at 5,000 meters above sea level and continued working

On Saturday and Sunday, citizens began searching on the outskirts of Portland (Oregon) for the panel of the Alaska Airlines plane that detached on Friday night on a flight to Ontario (California), opening a hole in the fuselage and causing an emergency landing. The panel appeared on Sunday afternoon in the backyard of a teacher's house, but what the searchers found were two mobile phones that had apparently been dropped by passengers from the plane, which suffered the incident when it was flying at about 16,000 feet of altitude (about 5,000 meters). One of them, an iPhone, was seen turned on and in good condition. On his screen he could see the check-in receipt for the suitcases of a passenger on the plane, according to the images that Seanathan Bates has tweeted.

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

Bates himself explains what happened in a video he recorded later: “I went for a walk today and found a phone belonging to an Alaska Airlines passenger on the ground. What better excuse to go for a walk this afternoon than the NTSB [la Junta Nacional de Seguridad en el Transporte] had asked people to go and report anything that seemed to have fallen off from the recent Alaska Airlines crash. Fortunately, no one was hurt or sucked in. But some belongings were lost,” his story begins.

“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, I was thinking it might just be that he had fallen from a car,” she continues. “I found it. It was still pretty clean. There are no scratches on it, it was under a bush 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 from flight Alaska 1282 so I had to go call the NTSB.”

In the images released by Bates you can see an NTSB official who went to the place where the phone appeared. The NTSB has confirmed the story, according to ABC television. NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy he pointed out on Sunday in a press conference in Portland that two phones that apparently belonged to passengers on the Alaska Airlines flight had been found, one next to the road, and another in the yard of a home, and that they were going to be returned to their owners. He didn't say anything about the status of the phones.

The Alaska Airlines flight took off from Portland, in the northwest of the United States, on Friday at 5 p.m. local time, heading to Ontario, California, but had to return about 20 minutes later when the panel fell off..

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