Phones likely belonging to passengers on Alaska Airlines flight found on roadside

The N TSB had asked people to go and report anything that, uh, looks like it had been, uh, fallen out of the recent Alaska Airlines accident. Uh, thankfully no one was injured or got sucked out, but they did lose some belongings. They were still looking for the door and, uh, I found *** phone sitting on the side of the road that, uh, had apparently fallen 16,000 ft. And I was, of course, *** little skeptical at first I was thinking this could just be thrown out of *** car, someone dropped it while they were jogging. But, uh, I found it, it was still pretty clean, no scratches on it, uh, sitting under *** bush and, and it didn't have *** screen lock on it. So I opened it up and it was an airplane mode with *** travel confirmation and baggage claim for Alaska 1282.

A Boeing jetliner suffered an inflight blowout over Oregon on Friday, sending debris from the Alaska Airlines plane into the air — including a couple cell phones likely belonging to passengers on the flight.Video above: Man tells how he found phone that seems to have fallen from Alaska Airlines planeTwo cell phones that were likely flung from the plane were found in a yard and on the side of a road and turned in to investigators, who may be able to use them as evidence, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said."Cell phones have actually helped us determine some things that occurred after tragedies … But it also helps in telling us, ‘Are we looking in the right area?,” the agency chief said just minutes before finding out the door plug had been discovered.Sean Bates told CNN he spotted a phone on an Oregon roadside and turned it over to the NTSB, who were already in the area investigating the accident."The NTSB had asked people to go and report anything that looks like it had been fallen out of the recent Alaska Airlines accident," Bates said.He said, "I found a phone sitting on the side of the road that had apparently fallen 16,000 feet." The phone didn’t have a security lock, and a photo of the phone shows an emailed Alaska Airlines baggage receipt for two bags, Bates said.NTSB spokesman Jennifer Gabris told CNN that the agency took custody of the phone Sunday and has since turned the phone over to Alaska Airlines. Federal officials examining the incident said the lost piece of the aircraft’s fuselage was also found.Alaska Airlines has said it is working with Boeing to understand what happened on Flight 1282.

Video above: Man tells how he found phone that seems to have fallen from Alaska Airlines plane

Two cell phones that were likely flung from the plane were found in a yard and on the side of a road and turned in to investigators, who may be able to use them as evidence, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said.

"Cell phones have actually helped us determine some things that occurred after tragedies … But it also helps in telling us, ‘Are we looking in the right area?,” the agency chief said just minutes before finding out the door plug had been discovered.

Sean Bates told CNN he spotted a phone on an Oregon roadside and turned it over to the NTSB, who were already in the area investigating the accident.

"The NTSB had asked people to go and report anything that looks like it had been fallen out of the recent Alaska Airlines accident," Bates said.

He said, "I found a phone sitting on the side of the road that had apparently fallen 16,000 feet."

The phone didn’t have a security lock, and a photo of the phone shows an emailed Alaska Airlines baggage receipt for two bags, Bates said.

NTSB spokesman Jennifer Gabris told CNN that the agency took custody of the phone Sunday and has since turned the phone over to Alaska Airlines.

Federal officials examining the incident said the lost piece of the aircraft’s fuselage was also found.

Alaska Airlines has said it is working with Boeing to understand what happened on Flight 1282.

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