(Washington) Nearly 5,000 meters of fall and a device that works: the story of this miraculous mobile phone, which fell from the cabin of the Alaska Airlines Boeing which opened in mid-flight on Friday in the United States, will annoy everyone those who broke their phone with a simple impact on their tiles.
An Internet user told X on Sunday that he found an iPhone on the side of a road near Portland, Oregon, with a screen dotted with a few drops and showing an email from the airline about luggage.
“Still in airplane mode, with the battery half full,” wrote Seanathan Bates on
In one image, we see the screen working without problem, the tip of the charging cable torn off.
” Thank you for your help ! »Wrote Monday on this same network the boss of the American agency responsible for transport safety (NTSB), Jennifer Homendy, who is investigating the incident. “I would really like to meet you.”
Friday evening, the door of a Boeing 737 MAX 9 of the American company Alaska Airlines detached from the cabin in mid-flight over Portland, causing depressurization of the cabin with a suction effect which, according to passengers cited by American media, ripped off a teenager’s shirt – and, visibly, this phone which was charging.
The accident, a new malfunction for the 737 MAX 9, caused the immobilization of certain Boeing aircraft awaiting an inspection imposed by the civil aviation authorities, and a fall in the stock market price of the American aircraft manufacturer on Monday. , which is facing a new blow.