--- ---  # Man's iPhone Miraculously Still Works After Falling From a Plane Over Texas by [Eliza Gray](https://time.com/author/eliza-gray/) ## Eliza Gray Aug 1, 2015 2:54 PM UTC  The new iPhone 4 is displayed at the 2010 Apple World Wide Developers conference June 7, 2010 in San Francisco, California. The new iPhone 4 is displayed at the 2010 Apple World Wide Developers conference June 7, 2010 in San Francisco, California.Justin Sullivan—Getty Images by [Eliza Gray](https://time.com/author/eliza-gray/) ## Eliza Gray Aug 1, 2015 2:54 PM UTC A Texas man [used an app to find his iPhone](http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/phone-found-in-working-condition-after-9300-foot-fall) in a rural pasture after it fell 9,300 ft. (2,834 m) from a Beechcraft Bonanza airplane on a flight from Houston. The phone fell out of the aircraft during a Monday flight, when a pressure change caused the door to open slightly. The owner of the phone, Ben Wilson, a Texas businessman, used the Find My iPhone app to locate the phone. They found it with a map and a satellite image. “It was by the side of the road south of Jacksboro, under a mesquite tree,” Wilson told the [_Times Record News_](http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/phone-found-in-working-condition-after-9300-foot-fall) in Wichita Falls, Texas. “It was in one piece, scratched a bit on the corners but it still worked,” he said. ### PHOTOS: Beautiful Long Exposures of Airplanes at Night  College Point Blvd., College Point, Queens, N.Y., June 2014. Kevin Kunstadt  36th Ave., Flushing, Queens, N.Y., June 2014. Kevin Kunstadt  Hermon MacNeil Park, College Point, Queens, N.Y., June 2014. Kevin Kunstadt  Greenpoint, Brooklyn, N.Y., June 2014. Kevin Kunstadt  East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, N.Y., June 2014. Kevin Kunstadt for TIME  Greenpoint, Brooklyn, N.Y., June 2014. Kevin Kunstadt for TIME  Greenpoint, Brooklyn, N.Y., June 2014. Kevin Kunstadt for TIME  Queens Botanical Garden, Flushing, Queens, N.Y., June 2014. Kevin Kunstadt  Flushing, N.Y., July 2014. Kevin Kunstadt  Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, N.Y., July 2014. Kevin Kunstadt for TIME  Spray View Ave., Far Rockaway, N.Y., July 2014. Kevin Kunstadt for TIME iPhone: Man's Phone Miraculously Still Works After Falling From Plane ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3981156/iphone-falls-plane/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3981156/iphone-falls-plane/"},"headline":"Man's iPhone Miraculously Still Works After Falling From a Plane Over Texas","datePublished":"2015-08-01T14:54:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:10.865Z","description":"He found it under a mesquite tree","url":"https://time.com/3981156/iphone-falls-plane/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Tech","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf3d694fa7b3d251/6988516a5f570fb43ab1ba35/gettyimages-101745067.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Gray","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-gray/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf3d694fa7b3d251/6988516a5f570fb43ab1ba35/gettyimages-101745067.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Apple Announces New iPhone At Developers Conference","caption":"Apple Announces New iPhone At Developers Conference","creditText":"Justin Sullivan—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3981156/iphone-falls-plane/","name":"Man's iPhone Miraculously Still Works After Falling From a Plane Over Texas"}}]}] ```