Im a flight attendant theres good news if your iPhone falls into an airplane toilet

It’s the “plop” no one wants to hear while on the pot. Using an airplane lavatory is risky enough, owing to the germs, tight space and lack of ventilation.But there’s nearly no greater gamble than squatting over the seat while your precious phone is in your pocket, and hoping it doesn’t meet a watery grave. And, unfortunately for this flight attendant, she rolled the dice and lost. “Has anyone else had the fear of dropping their phone in an airplane bathroom and then flushing it and losing it forever?,” asked American Airlines crew member Ally Case of her 160,000 TikTok followers. “That happened to me yesterday,” groaned the brunette, adding, however, that there’s a surprising upside to the soggy upset. “Most phones, like my iPhone 15 Pro, are too big to fit down the hole of an airplane toilet,” said Case.

“It was flushing.It was making the scary sound.

But my phone was just sitting there.”“It couldn’t be sucked down because it was too big.”But everyone’s not so lucky. Whether at 30,000 feet in the air or with both feet firmly planted on the tiles of your home’s bathroom floor, losing one’s phone to the toilet is a shot to the heart with lingering pangs. Becki Beckmann, a married Maryland woman, just recently recovered an iPhone she’d unwittingly dropped into the bowl of her abode’s commode back in 2012.Her husband randomly retrieved the device, which had been lodged in their pipes for about a decade, while plunging the toilet. “This was so, so far from what I was expecting,” said Beckmann. Emergency service members in Seattle, Washington, were forced to rescue a woman who fell head-first into the toilet of an outhouse while trying to save her sunken cellular. The unnamed victim, who was at the top of Mount Walker in the Olympic National Forest, was stuck in the stinky spot for 10 to 15 minutes before finally being able to reach her phone and call 911. She was washed down and “strongly encouraged to see...