iPhone survives 1,000-foot plummet out of a plane, located by owner with 'Find my iPhone'
The phone landed in a residential neighborhood after the incident, and was located by the owner without a scratch on it from the ordeal.
A pair of friends in Iowa took a ride in a vintage biplane in Ames, Iowa, July 3. when one of them took out her iPhone to take pictures, the phone fell out of the plane, dropping about 1,000 feet to the ground below.
According to WHO TV in Iowa the woman, Sarvinder Naberhaus, assumed the phone was gone, but upon landing she tried the Find My iPhone feature in an attempt to locate it. It didn't work the first time, but before going to buy a new phone, she tried once more.
That second try, it turned out, was successful. After following the trail for a while, Naberhaus spotted the phone in tall grass in a residential neighborhood, without a scratch, while displaying a notification about an upcoming meeting.
"I literally went into shock," said the second passenger Donna Johnson. "'I asked this is this for real? Is that the same phone?'" and I said 'this is a miracle phone, you can't drop a phone 1000 feet and have it still work!'"
Naberhouse, the author of multiple books, told the TV station that incident is proof that "God has a sense of humor."
In 2015, a Texas man claimed that he has dropped his iPhone more than 9,000 feet from a plane and he found it on the ground, still working. More recently, an iPhone 7 was found underwater, still working after a two-day, 30-foot submersion, off the coast of England.
A pair of friends in Iowa took a ride in a vintage biplane in Ames, Iowa, July 3. when one of them took out her iPhone to take pictures, the phone fell out of the plane, dropping about 1,000 feet to the ground below.
According to WHO TV in Iowa the woman, Sarvinder Naberhaus, assumed the phone was gone, but upon landing she tried the Find My iPhone feature in an attempt to locate it. It didn't work the first time, but before going to buy a new phone, she tried once more.
That second try, it turned out, was successful. After following the trail for a while, Naberhaus spotted the phone in tall grass in a residential neighborhood, without a scratch, while displaying a notification about an upcoming meeting.
"I literally went into shock," said the second passenger Donna Johnson. "'I asked this is this for real? Is that the same phone?'" and I said 'this is a miracle phone, you can't drop a phone 1000 feet and have it still work!'"
Naberhouse, the author of multiple books, told the TV station that incident is proof that "God has a sense of humor."
In 2015, a Texas man claimed that he has dropped his iPhone more than 9,000 feet from a plane and he found it on the ground, still working. More recently, an iPhone 7 was found underwater, still working after a two-day, 30-foot submersion, off the coast of England.
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Give a Samsumg to a 12 -24 mths baby, you will realize how tough the iPhone is :DDD
The force that needed to be dissipated to prevent damage when the phone landed is deterministic using Newton's Second Law (f=ma). This has variability within a range of values affected by the air resistance of the falling phone. Next, the tall grass and ground obviously dissipated additional force. The remaining force was then applied to the phone at the point of final impact. The damage resulting from the terminal impact varies by how the phone actually stuck the ground versus the phone design's vulnerability to damage at different force levels and at different strike points on the phone.
In this case the physics and phone design combined to make the 1000 foot fall survivable despite the drop height. The phone's owner might drop the same phone next week from 3 feet on to a granite curb and the phone's screen completely shatter. The same physics and how it relates to the phone design would still apply.
landing in the grass helped a lot.
I beat Samsung tries to turn this into negative.
sometimes they need the precise months age of the kids to reply my question..XDD
Morale of the story...make sure when it falls, it lands in the grass, not on a solid surface.
No, you didn't. And no, you don't know what literally means.
Landing on grass, in tall grass, helped big time. On concrete or asphalt, it would have been upgrade time. I don't know if the pic is of the actual phone, but a case would possibly have helped some.
She slipped the surly bonds of earth, put out her hand and touched the face of God.
And He slapped the phone out of her hand for trying to take a selfie with Him.
A sense of humor indeed.