Natagpuang gumagana pa rin ang isang iPhone matapos nitong malaglag mula sa eroplanong nasa 16,000 feet ang taas sa himpapawid.
Ang mobile phone ay nakita ni Sean Bates sa tabing kalsada na malapit sa isang kakahuyan sa Oregon, USA.
Laking gulat niya nang malamang nahulog ito mula sa Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9, na natanggalan ng door plug habang nasa himpapawid noong January 5, 2024.
Napilitan ang mga piloto na mag-emergency landing dahil sa insidente. Palipad sana ang eroplano mula Oregon papuntang California.
Matagumpay namang naisagawa ang emergency landing, at wala namang napaulat na nasaktan o nasawi sa 178 passengers and flight crew na sakay nito.
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Alaska Airlines plane had to make an emergency landing after its sealed and plugged door blew out.
AN IPHONE PHONE IN THE BUSH
Sa lakas ng impact ng hangin nang matanggal ang door plug, nahigop palabas ng eroplano ang ilang mga kagamitan, at kasama na nga rito ang isang iPhone.
Sa X (formerly known as Twitter) nagkuwento si Sean, residente ng Oregon na nakakita at nakapulot sa iPhone.
Aniya, “And I found a phone sitting on the side of the road that had apparently fallen 16,000 feet."
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Found an iPhone on the side of the road... Still in airplane mode with half a battery and open to a baggage claim for #AlaskaAirlines ASA1282 Survived a 16,000 foot drop perfectly in tact!
— Seanathan Bates (@SeanSafyre) January 7, 2024
When I called it in, Zoe at @NTSB said it was the SECOND phone to be found. No door yet???? pic.twitter.com/CObMikpuFd
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Noong una ay nagduda pa si Sean lalo't gumagana pa ang iPhone.
Sabi ni Sean sa CNN report, “I was of course a little skeptical at first. I was just thinking this could just be thrown out of car, [or] some dropped it while they were driving.
“But I found it was still pretty clean, no scratches on it, sitting under a bush. And it didn’t have a screen lock on it.
“So I opened it up and it was in airplane mode with a travel confirmation, and baggage claim for Alaska 1282.”
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Si Sean Bates (foreground) kasama ang dalawang National Transportation Safety Board staff crew para tingnan ang lugar kung saan nakita ang iPhone.
Nag-anunsiyo naman ang National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) na isauli sa opisina nila ang anumang gamit na nalaglag sa eroplano, at sila na ang magbibigay sa Alaska Airlines.
Pero ang tanong: Paanong gumagana pa rin ang iPhone?
HOW DID THE PHONE MANAGE TO SURVIVE
Ang nakikitang paliwanag ng mga eksperto ay physics, ang brance of science ukol sa “natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.”
Paliwanag ni Duncan Watts, isang post-doctoral researcher sa Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics sa University of Oslo sa The Washington Post, “The basic answer is air resistance."
Dagdag niya, “I think the counterintuitive thing here is that an iPhone falling from the sky doesn’t end up moving that quickly because of air resistance.”
Nangangahulugan daw ito na anumang bagay na nalaglag sa Earth ay makakaranas ng “terminal velocity,” kung saan hindi na uubra ang hatak ng gravity dahil sa “resistance from the air in the atmosphere.”
Sabi pa ni Watts, “If the phone is falling with its screen facing the ground, there’s quite a lot of drag, but if the phone is falling straight up and down, there’s quite a bit less.”
“In reality, the phone would be tumbling quite a bit, and get quite a lot of wind essentially giving an upward force.”
The actual iPhone that fell from the Alaska Airlines plane.
Sabi pa ng researcher, kung normal na ibabagsak sa sahig ang phone, ang sukat ng speed nito ay 10 mph. Pero kung malalaglag ang phone mula sa eroplano, maaaring umabot ang speed nito sa 50mph.
Factor din daw ang babagsakan ng phone. Kung tumama ito sa bato o semento, siguradong sira ang phone.
“If the iPhone fell on a grassy patch, then it definitely could have survived the fall.
“If the phone was facing straight down, it would have gone from about 30 mph to stationary on a relatively cushy surface, a little less force than if I decided to stomp on it.”