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It is strange two phones have been found, but not the door. Most of the Cedar Hills/Beaverton area is houses and shops with sporadic green spaces that aren’t th
by irrational 3y ago
It is strange two phones have been found, but not the door. Most of the Cedar Hills/Beaverton area is houses and shops with sporadic green spaces that aren’t that large in comparison. It is possible the door fell into a green space, but the odds are it did not. I imagine it is in someone’s backyard, but it is January in rainy Oregon. People aren’t doing yard work right now. I wouldn’t be surprised if it isn’t found until Spring when someone goes out to their backyard and discovers it.
It would be amusing if it fell into the lake on Nike Campus. It is fairly shallow, but if it was in the middle, it might not be noticed for a long time.
- cozzyd 3y agoThe door can probably glide quite a bit farther, maybe?
- photonbeam 3y agoThe phones are trackable via gps
- Tempest1981 3y agoBoeing needs "Find My Door"
- jkestner 3y agoThey should make the whole plane out of AirTags
- adrianmonk 3y agoGood thing ships aren't losing doors. As far as I know, Apple doesn't offer SeaTags.
- resolutebat 3y agoWell, at least it was the side that fell off, not the front. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
- stephenr 3y agoI don't think it fell outside the environment either.
- atkbrah 3y agoWell at least one did in the 90s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_MS_Estonia#Official_investigation_and_report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_MS_Estonia#Offi...
- grotorea 3y agoShips do lose containers regularly though. New market opportunity!
- photonbeam 3y agoHow do you misplace a container?
- grotorea 3y agoThey lose them to sea weather. It's a thing: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/01/983017153/cargo-overboard-intense-rolling-the-risks-of-fully-loaded-mega-container-ships https://www.npr.org/2021/04/01/983017153/cargo-overboard-int...
- martin-adams 3y agoAnd the sucked out phones can do the reporting
- bmitc 3y agoAnd the Air Force needs "Find My F-35". Lol.
- dredmorbius 3y agoApparently not a factor in this case, though true.
- taylortbb 3y agoThe post says the phone was in airplane mode, and was found by chance as someone walked past it.
- bombcar 3y agoTechnically it had been in airplane mode, but now it was in sideoftheroad mode.
- kijin 3y agoMaybe a phone could automatically disable airplane mode if it detects a sudden loss of altitude?
- grotorea 3y agoAutomatically switches to last words recorder mode.
- bombcar 3y agoReminds me of the skydiver who dropped his camera and you can watch it spin and eventually land in a pigpond where a pig investigates it. It’s on YouTube.
- hypothesis 3y agohttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QrxPuk0JefA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QrxPuk0JefA, if anything else is curious. Have to admit, amazing plot and production, all in a minute!
- Arrath 3y agoI love that video
- klausa 3y agoFind My works in airplane mode.
- oldgradstudent 3y agoNot in airplane mode, though.
- gnicholas 3y agoI actually wondered about this. My iPhone can be located even when turned off, so long as I haven't deactivated that functionality at shutdown (has to be done each time). Is an iPhone in airplane mode really less trackable than an iPhone that is turned off?
- kaba0 3y agoFind My is bluetooth-based, which is fine to use on airplanes as well.
- gnicholas 3y agoI feel like the BT behavior varies when I activate airplane mode. If I am currently connected to my BT headphones, they stay connected. If I am not, then activating airplane mode appears to turn off BT (pulling out my headphones and trying to connect doesn't work). But I would be surprised if the Find My functionality didn't work in airplane mode, given how Apple set it up to work even when turned off (you must manually set it not to be active, and you must put in your passcode each time).
- acchow 3y agoI imagine airplane mode turns off regular Bluetooth, but Bluetooth Low Energy meant for “Find My” is still allowed. The same behavior as turning off the phone.
- astrange 3y agoI think airplane mode has memory and just switches to the last settings you had in airplane mode. My WiFi and BT stay turned on.
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- ars 3y agoThe phone was in airplane mode, so not actually trackable.
- xcv123 3y agoAirplane mode allows bluetooth, so it is trackable through Find My.
- Beldin 3y agoI was rather surprised at this comment. A quick google later it seems that airplane mode turns off all radio communication (as I suspected), but apparently it is possible to turn Bluetooth or WiFi on while remaining in airplane mode. At least for some phones. Honestly did not consider that.
- teamspirit 3y agoI do this as soon as I’m home. Now both Android and iOS automatically keep bluetooth and wifi on when turning on airplane mode, provided the user does it the first time. I do it because cell reception is quite poor at my house so calls are better off staying on wifi - also battery life is improved.
- ghaff 3y agoI fly regularly with an iPhone and use United’s WiFi entertainment on a regular basis. Also I often switch on airplane mode when I don’t want an international plan to activate and use WiFi all the time.
- rsynnott 3y agoAirplane mode on iOS does _not_ by default turn off wifi and bluetooth, just the cellular radio. At least in Europe; it's possible that this is driven by regional regulations. Though I think pretty much everywhere allows use of the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands in the air now.
- jeffbee 3y agoThe reason being that "airplane mode" is there to save the terrestrial mobile network. It has nothing to do with the airplane, and there's no reason to turn off wifi or bluetooth on an airplane.
- carabiner 3y ago[flagged]
- rattus_rattus 3y agoEdit: it has been found! I’m on mobile and not able to find a better link right now, but here’s an NTSB spokesperson discussing it: https://www.facebook.com/story.php/?id=100064737668850&story https://www.facebook.com/story.php/?id=100064737668850&story... Sounds like the thing in the woods mentioned below was not the real deal and just some other bit of garbage or something that was dumped in the brush. Previous comment: I live in this neighborhood and saw a post on Nextdoor a little bit ago that indicates the door/panel may have been found. The text of the post is as follows: “My husband and I were walking the trail behind the Renaissance Town-homes near Barnes and Valeira View and we saw a large white oval object with a teal stripe on it in the brambles between the creek and Barnes Road. Two others saw it too and they called non-emergency. WCSO and the NTSB showed up but they could not affirm that that is what is was. As my husband said, nobody will know until they walk over to it. Unfortunately the undergrowth prevented us from doing so. We'll see, or not.” The description of it having a teal stripe could match up with the missing panel, although we obviously can’t be sure yet if it is actually the missing part. I also saw a post from one of the folks who found a phone, and they had included a photo of where they found it, which I recognized to be fairly close to the place where the door was potentially found. Sometimes we hear stuff on our roof, but it’s always just pinecones falling or a squirrel running around… makes me grateful we haven’t had a Donnie Darko scene in our yard or on our roof!
- hackernewds 3y agothat ain't it. here on a better source https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/07/us/alaska-airlines-faa-plug-door-blown-off-sunday/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/07/us/alaska-airlines-faa-plug-d...
- codetrotter 3y agoDisappointed there is no photo of what it looked like when it was found. As in a photo of the door at the place it was found before anyone moved it anywhere.
- astrange 3y agoIt's a little strange NTSB would show up but not be able to get to the door(-like object). Seems like a drone could fly over it.
- 8ig8 3y agoThey found it… https://lite.cnn.com/2024/01/07/us/alaska-airlines-faa-plug-door-blown-off-sunday/index.html https://lite.cnn.com/2024/01/07/us/alaska-airlines-faa-plug-...
- irrational 3y agoSo it was found in someone’s backyard.
- graton 3y agoThe door was found. Here is the NTSB official YouTube channel where they discuss that it was found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Pfj8G7Rdg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Pfj8G7Rdg