If proof were needed that the iPhone 4 is a pretty tough device, then look no further than the one owned by Ron Walker. He’s a U.S. Air Force Combat Controller and Jump Master, meaning he’s up in planes preparing soldiers for parachute jumps most days.
On one of his flights recently he was preparing for the jumps when the pocket his iPhone 4 was in became open. As he was leaning out of an aircraft travelling at 150mph at the time the smartphone fell, and continued to fall the 1,000ft to the ground.
A cracked screen, dead phone, and no chance of ever locating it again, right? Wrong. When Walker got back on the ground a fellow Air Forcer and iPhone owner had Find My iPhone installed on his handset. That allowed the lost iPhone to be tracked to a nearby forest where everyone expected it to be smashed.
The only protection Walker’s phone had was a Griffin Motif case and a metal back fitted, but that seems to have been enough. The iPhone was laying next to a tree on the ground without a scratch on it. Whether the trees had somehow broken the fall without harming it, or Apple has a secret iPhone parachute deployment feature it’s not telling us about, we will never know.
Was this a lucky escape, or does anyone have similar stories of iPhones falling from great height and surviving with minimal damage?
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