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The recent, dangerous venture of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 could not be captured by passenger Cuong Tran, as his phone flew out of the gaping hole that appeared in the side of the plane midflight and landed on ground 16,000 feet below him. Miraculously, the phone had no cracks and was still functioning when found by game designer Sean Bates on Jan. 7, per The Verge. Tran, according to the Los Angeles Times, was in seat 27A on the Jan. 5 Alaska Airlines flight when the passengers in the row i...

Sean Bates via ReutersAn iPhone ripped out of an Alaska Airlines aircraft after a fuselage blowout was reportedly found over the weekend by a man in Portland, Oregon. Sean Bates shared images of the device on X, writing that he’d discovered it on the side of the road. “Still in airplane mode with half a battery and open to a baggage claim” email for the flight, he added. “Survived a 16,000 foot drop perfectly [intact]!” He said that a National Transportation Sa...

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A law firm opens its first New York office, the Chetrit Group offloads an Upper East Side building, and CBRE buys an industrial property in Sunset Park