Two mobile phones fell out of a plane during the now infamous incident on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max, which lost a piece of its fuselage mid-flight last Friday.
The iPhone was found by the roadside by a man named Seanathan Bates in Portland. Bates, who describes himself as a game developer, revealed the phone was in aeroplane mode, unlocked, and displaying an email from Alaska Airlines.
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has confirmed that two phones have been brought forward in the investigation.
One device was found roadside, the other in a garden, though the condition of this second mobile is unknown. The NTSB will examine the phones and return them to the passengers.
The incident occurred shortly after the Alaska Airlines flight took off from Portland International Airport in Oregon, USA, around 5 p.m. local time, headed for Ontario, California.
Carrying 171 passengers and six crew members, the aircraft was nearly 5,000 meters in altitude at the time, according to FlightAware data.
The NTSB chief reported that a teacher, known as ‘Bob’, found the piece of the fuselage in his garden in Portland.
