![]() ![]() He was in a rush to "get out the door" (of the plane), he said, and forgot to zip the pocket of his baggy skydiving pants, which are designed to be loose-fitting so they catch air and slow him down as he falls from the sky. McKinney, who first submitted this story on CNN iReport, the user-generated news site, said he's not sure when the phone slipped out of his pocket during his fall from the plane. "I think water is harder to deal with than shock." Gikas said it is possible a phone could survive a major fall. "That's the proved method for fixing the antenna problem," he said, laughing. Mike Gikas, a tech editor at Consumer Reports, the nonprofit group that tests phones and other gadgets for their reliability, jokingly said that McKinney finally found a way to fix the phone's reception woes, by dropping it from a plane. Apple gave out free phone cases to address the issue. Consumer watchdogs claimed a design flaw on the phone's antenna caused it to drop calls unexpectedly. When the Apple smartphone debuted in 2010, a saga the tech media called Antennagate followed. That's especially amazing since the iPhone 4 can suffer from cell reception issues. ![]() "They were all like, 'It works! It works!'" he said of his friends watching his rooftop search from the bottom of the building. McKinney felt the phone vibrate and started laughing. Just to be funny, Johnson decided to call the busted phone. Joe Johnson, a skydiving instructor, said he and a few friends watched from the ground below the two-story building as McKinney raised the phone above his head in triumph after he located it using a GPS tracking app. He found the gadget, its glass surfaces shattered, on top of a building about a half-mile away from where he landed with his parachute. So it's easy to see why McKinney, a 37-year-old in Minnesota, would be "just absolutely shocked" when that same phone survived a fall from his pocket - while he was skydiving from 13,500 feet. "I was like, 'Man! That's all it takes to crack the glass?' " he said. (CNN) - Jarrod McKinney's iPhone 4 - a notoriously fragile device - cracked when his 2-year-old knocked it off a bathroom shelf. Phone was found at least a quarter-mile from where the man landed.The phone can make and receive calls, but other functions don't work.Man says iPhone 4 fell out of his pocket while he was skydiving - and survived. ![]()
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