We've all had smartphones for a while and we've all come across teething issues such as a cracked screen. This problem kickstarted the highly profitable market of smartphone covers and screen protectors that have become an essential accessory to buy today.

Every smartphone is plagued by this problem. However, a new story reported by Newsweek sent shockwaves amongst smartphone owners. Sarvinder Naberhaus dropped her iPhone out of a biplane while she was trying to take pictures. 

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The incident occurred when Sarvinder and her friend hired a biplane to get a better view of their city. As common as it gets, her smartphone slipped from her hands and plummeted a 1000 feet. 

Here's where the story gets interesting, Sarvinder used the 'Find My iPhone' app to locate her phone in a nearby neighbourhood. To her surprise, the smartphone was still alive and started to call her phone in order to locate it. She heard her phone ring and found the phone in a yard. 

Her smartphone was found lying in long grass, working perfectly, without a single dent or scratch on its body and it even greeted her with an alarm. Now that is quite unreal. The iPhone was in a bumper case which provides protection, but not the kind where it would be able to withstand a 1,000-foot drop. 

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It's not the first time where an iPhone has been found working after being dropped from a high altitude. In 2015, a man dropped his iPhone more than 9,000 feet from a plane and found his phone to be still working. Yesterday we reported how an iPhone managed to survive underwater at a depth of 30 feet for two full days. 

It's great to hear such stories where the iPhone has managed to do the impossible. What sucks is that we all know that not everyone is lucky and we are able to break our screen by simply dropping it on a hard surface, even from our desk. We can only hope to have a really tough cover that may just save us from having a huge bill at the repair centre. 

Source: Newsweek