"Alaska Airlines Passenger Finds iPhone That Survived 16,000ft Fall"
TL;DR
Sean Bates found an iPhone under a bush while killing time before lunch and realized it may have fallen from Alaska Airlines Flight 1282. He promptly contacted NTSB investigators, who confirmed it was from the plane. The phone, surprisingly undamaged, was returned to Alaska Airlines for the owner. Bates has since received attention from phone case companies and plans to take a picture of the next phone he finds falling from the sky.
Topics:businesshuman-interest#airplane-incident#alaska-airlines#good-samaritan#human-interest#lost-phone#ntsb
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