An iPhone X recently passed an accidental drop test from 11,000 feet.
Pilot dmloftus’ story about his iPhone X is remarkable. Particularly because the phone survived.
As he described it on the DiamondAvatars.net forum, dmloftus just wanted to take a few photos of a cool-looking cloud formation. He was flying his DA40 aircraft at 175 MPH and just over 11,000 feet of altitude, en route from Colorado Springs to Atlanta, where he lives.
But a bump from turbulence moved his hand too close to the small window on the side of the canopy, and the iPhone X was sucked right through it.
Obviously, chances seemed slim that he’d ever see the phone again. After all, he flew on home to Atlanta and figured he might as well upgrade from the 4-year-old device to a 5G model anyway.
When he brought in an older iPhone 6S to AT&T to see about an upgrade, he got quite a surprise. Find My Phone indicated his iPhone X might not be dead. It was near Blythe, Arkansas and had reported a last location from the previous evening.
He and a friend ended up flying to Arkansas and searching through a soybean field to find the phone. To their amazement, it worked as soon as they plugged it in via Lighting Cable in a borrowed car.
Dmloftus credits more than just the durable iPhone X for its survival. Fortunately, it landed on a soft soybean crop, and landed near enough to a cell phone tower for a location to be transmitted.
The phone survived without any damage!