Ondrej Holzman Apple began investigating the case of a twenty-three-year-old Chinese woman who was killed by an electric shock when she picked up a ringing iPhone 5. It was on the charger at the time.
Ailun Ma was from China's western Xinjiang region and worked as a flight attendant for China Southern Airlines. Her family now claims she was electrocuted last Thursday when she picked up a ringing iPhone 5 that was charging, and it cost her her life.
Ailuna's sister mentioned the accident on the Chinese micro-blogging service Sina Weibo (similar to Twitter), and the whole event suddenly gained media coverage and attracted the attention of the general public. Therefore, Apple itself commented on the case:
We are deeply saddened by this tragic event and offer our sincere condolences to the Mao family. We will fully investigate the case and cooperate with the relevant authorities.
The investigation is just getting started, so it is understandably uncertain whether Ailun Mao's death was actually caused by a charging iPhone. While experts say any device that is in use while charging poses a higher risk, they add that several factors would have to come together for it to be life-threatening.
It is also possible that a non-original copy of the charger caused the problem, although the family of the deceased woman claims that an original Apple accessory purchased in December last year was used.
That seems very unlikely to me. I assume that she was right-handed (as most of them are - the fact that she was left-handed would statistically push such a case towards astronomically small numbers). So the current would then pass through her hand according to the short-circuit rule by the shortest path to earth – that is, through her right hip and right leg. Such electrocution from an electrical outlet is rarely fatal. A person who has already caught at least ten of them speaks :D.
For example, she would have to hold on to some earth with her left hand. It would be different if they wrote that he killed her after putting it to her ear. There, the current would go through the brain and that is not very pleasant.
In terms of probability, there are too many conditions, and Occam's Razor says it's more likely to be a duck.
What do you think?
that the information has gone through a gradual distortion because no one cares too much about obtaining confirmation of the factual situation on the spot. I doubt it would be possible at all :-)
I think that Apple is lying in the stomach of the Chinese authorities. see constant strife. I wouldn't even be surprised if it was a targeted campaign. just like stb spread hoaxes like black ambulances and so on :)
and I assumed that the iPhone charger gave 5V and 1A
see my answer below. the second possibility is that it really happened, but with some unofficial plagiarism of the charger, so she got 230v overcharge, but I still doubt that it killed her. I would say that if a person is not fit to soak a woman in the bath, then 230 in most cases a person will survive.
a friend was plugging in a laptop in the garden without a bachkor in wet grass and got 230v and didn't survive it .://. coincidence is stupid, it's a combination of factors, maybe she just came out of the bathroom :D
Personally, I would say that on the one hand, Apple has a lot of people and organizations in its stomach, so any negative association with the brand is warmly welcomed and properly debunked, and these articles are subsequently, when there is not much to write about, taken over and further debunked on the servers , like this one. If one stewardess was electrocuted in China (honor to her memory), I wonder how many people in the same country have been electrocuted by, say, a piercing kettle, vacuum cleaner, or other commonly used electrical appliance…. The sad thing is that the number of articles dealing with absurdities is increasing.
hehe and when I talk on the phone with the charger turned on, it makes a little noise in my ear. but I don't get two hundred and thirty.