“I found a phone sitting on the side of the road that had apparently fallen 16,000 feet,” Bates said in a video recorded for social media Sunday.

He said he was “a little skeptical” when he first found it, thinking perhaps it may have been tossed out of a passing vehicle. But the phone wasn’t locked, so he opened it up, he said.

“It was in airplane mode with a travel confirmation and baggage claim for Alaska 1282,” Bates said. “So, I had to go call the NTSB.”

  • @n3m37h
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    171 year ago

    Some people are sane and use cases and glass screen protectors. Phones dont have a great enough terminal velocity to damage the internals. People get cases and throw band new iphones out of apartment buildings

    • @[email protected]
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      231 year ago

      I don’t feel the need to get a case that would allow my phone to survive an incident that I wouldn’t survive.

      • @n3m37h
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        61 year ago

        I want evidence of my gruesome death to be posted online for internet clout

    • @[email protected]
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      121 year ago

      Also if it landed on grass or fell through thin tree branches, there is almost no chance of damage.

    • WHYAREWEALLCAPS
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      21 year ago

      My case has saved my phone screen so many times. Its raised edge keeps the screen from smashing into the ground.

      • @n3m37h
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        31 year ago

        I always use a glass screen protector, my last phone (Galaxy A71) only had a case, dropped it 100’s of times, one time there was a little pebble on the ground and that shattered my screen, for $10 you can get a 3 pack of glass screen protectors. Well worth it IMO