A Canadian artist dropped her iPhone 17 Pro from a plane at 3,600 feet, then found it sitting face-up and virtually untouched in a canola field. Recently, during an outing above Regina, Heather decided to use her new iPhone 17 Pro to help gather inspiration for a new project. Free fallingWhile it might seem improbable that an iPhone could survive a fall from a plane, it's actually not that far-fetched. A six-foot iPhone fall impacts the surface it hits at about half the speed of that 335-foot fall. But there are reasons why iPhones can fall from a great distance and survive, while not surviving a short fall.