iPhone survives after falling 1,000 feet from airplane

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iPhone survives after falling 1,000 feet from airplane

Iowa - This is not the first time that a mobile phone survived a massive fall.

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Published: Tue 17 Jul 2018, 11:35 AM

Last updated: Tue 17 Jul 2018, 1:39 PM

An Iowa woman was shocked to find her iPhone unscratched after dropping it over 1,000 feet out of an airplane while trying to take pictures.
Sarvinder Naberhaus was reminiscing childhood memories with her high school best friend Donna Johnson in a biplane flight over Ames, Iowa, when the incident occurred.
However, deterred to find it, Naberhaus found her iPhone with Find my iPhone app feature that allows remote tracking of devices using GPS technology.
"I had my phone in my hand and I moved it just a little bit outside [the windshield] and then whoosh, the wind just took it and it was just gone after I was holding it, and I looked down and there were cornfields below me," Newsweek quoted Naberhaus as saying in WHO-TV.
The two women signed up through the Central Iowa Air Service and were flying in a vintage plane available with the American Barnstormers 2018 tour across the country.
Within a few hours of the plane landing, Naberhaus followed the app's directions to a street and tried calling her phone using a second borrowed cell phone.
Finally, after hours of searching, she found her iPhone laying face-up in tall grass. Naberhaus also claimed an alarm immediately went off to notify her of an upcoming 4:00 pm meeting which she managed to make it on Tuesday afternoon.
"I literally went into shock. I asked is this for real, is that the same phone and I said this is a miracle phone, you can't drop a phone 1,000 feet and have it still work," said her friend Johnson.
However, this is not the first time that a mobile phone survived a massive fall. In 2015, a Texas man claimed his iPhone still worked after he dropped it 9,300 feet out of a single-engine propeller plane. 
 


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