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MBA survives plane crash

chrmjenkins

chrmjenkins

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http://i.gizmodo.com/5215296/unibody-construction-helps-macbook-air-survive-plane-crash

Last February a Turkish Airways jet crashed in Amsterdam killing nine people and injuring 121 others. Passenger Sefer Baris and his MacBook Air survived the crash—but both were a little worse for wear.

Sefer's friend Bullent tells Macenstein:

He was sitting on the chair in the front [of the airplane]. Seat number seven. (3-4 chairs from the business class). He has his MacBook Air with him, he was watching a movie. When the plane began to land, he closed his MacBook Air, and put it in the skin. A couple of minutes [later] there was the crash."

Apparently Sefer broke his neck the accident—and his MacBook was bent all to hell. Miraculously, several operations have given Sefer the ability to walk, and sturdy unibody construction prevented his new MacBook Air from completely biting the dust. Despite their injuries, both "booted up" and are expected to recover. [Macenstein]
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Brings new meaning to the term Macbook "Air" :)

Macbook Airlines, how may we help you?
 
Schtumple said:
Jesus that's warped to buggery, I wonder what the resale value of it will be now...

:p

Lucky guy really, lucky machine too...
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Geez... being taken to within in inch of my life in a plane crash? I'd keep it for that novelty value alone.

Years from now he'll be telling the story. "And here's the computer! It still works!"
 
janstett said:
Lenovo has a nice page on various catasrophes their notebooks survive
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I think it's safe to say that any Thinkpad would have fared much better through any incident that the Macbook Air goes through. Try dropping a Thinkpad or a Macbook Air from a height of 5ft. I would have my money on the Thinkpad. Not to mention I have a Latitude D420 and can stack 5 or 6 really thick college textbooks on top of it and the casing would not even flex one bit. When I tried this on my Macbook Air, the thing started bending after 1 book. Keep in mind these are 1500 page textbooks.
 
Oh please, a MacBook Air with a damaged screen is more newsworthy than the deaths in the crash? :rolleyes:
 
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