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iPhone Survives 1,000-Foot Drop Without a Scratch

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You might as well JUMP!

U.S. Air Force Combat Controller Ron Walker says he dropped his iPhone 4. That’s happened to us all, but at the time Walker was leaning out of a US Air Force plane door while preparing for a static line jump from 1,000 feet.

After the jump, Walker says he used the Find My iPhone app, and found his iPhone at the base of a tree in a forest. The phone was unscratched and worked fine, according to Walker.

The phone had a Griffin Motif case, and no other protection.

Go here to see photos of the actual phone.

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23 responses to “iPhone Survives 1,000-Foot Drop Without a Scratch”

  1. Guest says:

    So do we give the credit to the iPhone or the griffin case?

  2. devunish says:

    1,000 ft is far too low to skydive, even with a ripcord….some facts are not right, even if he was leaning out of the plan not yet ready to jump, the doors wouldn’t have been open at that elevation.
    Maybe it was actually 10,000 or 11,000 ft. (the elevation from which I jumped using a static line).

  3. Fropy says:

    Apple should make a commercial out of this with the intro: Unlike junk knockoffs which fall apart on impact when slip off your hand, the iPhone survives 1000-foot drop scratch-less – a real story.

  4. Michael says:

    Military static line jumps go down as low as 500ft. Pull out an throw pilot chutes are what modern ski-divers use today to deploy parachutes, not ripcords. In military aircraft, jump-masters stand in the open door for safety observation at any altitude they want, they are the aircraft commander during airborne operations.

  5. Fropy says:

    Sound pretty convincing, thanks for the info.

  6. Chris says:

    we give credit to the tree xD always have a tree with you :D

  7. devunish says:

    Sorry I meant to say static line. 500ft. wow I didn’t know that, talk about not getting your moneys worth lol.

  8. Bert Vanderveen says:

    Why do you guys use a faked photo to illustrate this article? That IS lame!

  9. Hampus says:

    I say credit both.
    I have dropped my unprotected iPhone 4 and the only scratches on it you need a strong lamp and quite an angle to spot… I didn’t drop it from 1000ft though :p
    The tree and the ground being well not stone or concrete probably helped a lot too :p

  10. MadXperts says:

    Wow, that’s amazing. But definitely, when your iPhone is having a protective shield and if it falls near a tree base, it’s not going to hurt the casing or internal functions. “Wow” for Apple, I mean, people do find time to cover such stories… :)

  11. phone recycling says:

    The Griffin Motif case bust be amazing as most iphones shatter as soon as they hit the ground from a few feet.

  12. cct says:

    Basic military static lines for training are at 1000-1200 ft. Probably shouldn’t open your mouth about things you don’t know about. Keep your nerd ass in phones pussy.

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