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Working iPhone found on side of road ‘likely’ fell from Alaska Airlines flight

Person who found phone posted that it was ‘in airplane mode with half a battery and open to a baggage claim’

The US’s National Transportation Safety Board says it has recovered a working iPhone that “likely” fell from the Alaska Airlines flight that required an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon, over the weekend after a passenger plane’s door panel blew out while midair. Bates posted on Sunday that he had found a functioning iPhone on the side of the road “in airplane mode with half a battery and open to a baggage claim” for the Alaska Airlines flight which had been diverted to Portland two days earlier. A covered exit door on the left side of the jet tore off at 16,000 feet (4,877 meters) shortly after takeoff, depressurizing the plane while forcing the pilots to turn back and land safely.

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