In a bizarre story out of Iceland, an iPhone 6s that fell out of a plane more than a year ago and spent the ensuing months in extreme weather conditions was found recently — and, surprisingly enough, was mostly in working order.
In a story first reported by The Next Web, a photographer named Haukur Snorrason went to Iceland last year to take photos of some of the country’s most scenic spots.
At one point during the trip, Snorrason stuck his hand out the window of a small propeller plane and decided to film some video footage with his trusty iPhone 6s. But as luck would have it, a sudden burst of wind knocked the phone out of his hand and down about 200 feet onto “rocky terrain — where a massive river was overflowing and rupturing roads.”
Seeing as it was the ultimate of drop tests, Snorrason naturally thought his iPhone 6s was a goner and simply moved on.
Fast-forward 13 months, and a group of hikers in Iceland stumbled across the phone, whereupon they contacted Snorrason to tell him that they had found his lost device.
The phone, remarkably enough, worked even after “spending over a year exposed to the harsh Icelandic elements.”
Interestingly, the only feature impacted by the fall is that Snorrason’s voice can’t be picked up when talking on the phone.
As to how the iPhone survived the fall, Snorrason explained:
Luckily the phone landed on a patch of moss that grows here and there in the lava field. The moss in this area is rather thick, can be up to 30 cm [11¾ inches], so that’s the main reason it survived the fall I think.