Woman says she dropped iPhone 2,500 feet out of a plane, found it intact - CNET

As the Abbotsford News reports, Buck says she dropped her phone out the window of a Cessna in which she was a passenger last Monday night.

She was flying around taking pictures out the window when the wind slipped it from her grasp.

She says she saw it hitting tree branches in the park below which, perhaps, gave her hope.

A few hours later, she persuaded a friend to offer his phone and its Find My iPhone app in order to search for hers.

It helped that her phone has a distinctive ringtone -- Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay."

She says she found it in the park and even posted a picture to her Facebook page to prove she wasn't making it all up.

The screen wasn't cracked and the rest of the phone only had slight damage.

The phone, she said, worked just fine.

Buck didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. She has, however, retired Redding from his duties.

"I had just changed the ringtone [that] moing from 'Stayin' Alive,'" she told the Abbotsford News. "I've since changed in back in honor of the phone's will to live."