My experience is that, a phone is more durable if it lands flat than if it lands on a corner.
My wife’s phone broke in her back pocket when she bent down to do some gardening..........................
This is very true I dropped my iPhone off one of those tall orange ladders in Home Depot it landed flat and to my absolute amazement there was no damage!! Months later I again dropped my phone from the top of the Orange ladder it landed on the corner and BOTH sides of the phone had huge cracks in the glass but it still worked!!
That and the difference between landing on some concrete sidewalk, road or parking lot and grass or similar. It really didn’t matter whether it was 16K feet or 1000 ft. It reached some terminal velocity due to wind resistance very quickly.