The plane was forced to land
Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, bound for Ontario, California, was forced to make an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon, after a door blew off, leaving a large hole in the fuselage. The plane had reached an altitude of 4,876 meters when the incident occurred. Now a phone has been found which is said to have fallen out of the plane when the door blew off.
Images from social media showed passengers crouching in their seats with oxygen masks hanging from the ceiling.
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The discovery of the telephone
The phone was found by Sean Bates in Washington, on the side of a road, and appeared to belong to one of the passengers. An image of the phone posted on X, formerly Twitter, showed an intact screen and a luggage receipt.
The phone’s battery was charged to 44 percent and it was still in airplane mode. Apart from the charging socket, where the charging connector had been torn off, the phone was undamaged. Bates mentioned in a TikTok post that he had found the phone “pretty clean, no scratches on it, under a bush”.
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The authority’s response
Bates contacted the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which announced that it was the second phone from the flight that had been found. NTSB Chairman Jennifer Homeland Bates thanked via X and offered to meet.
She also informed the press that the authority would review the phones before they are returned.
According to Duncan Wattsresearcher at the University of Oslo, the phone survived due to air resistance.
“If the phone fell on a patch of grass, it could definitely survive the fall. If it was angled down, it would have gone from 50 kilometers per hour to rest on relatively soft ground, with a little less force than if I had stepped on it,” Watts told The Washington Post.
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