China Southern Flight Attendant Electrocuted While Using Apple (AAPL) iPhone 5
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Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) is lower early Monday following headlines that its iPhone might have led to the death of at least one in China.
Xinhua reported over the weekend that a flight attendant with China Southern Airlines may have been electrocuted by her iPhone 5. Sources said the attendant was picking up her iPhone 5 to answer it while it was being charged at the time of the incident.
Apple issued a statement saying that the company planned to "thoroughly investigate" the incident to get to the root of the cause.
Officials in China haven't directly tied the iPhone 5 to the death, yet.
Mobile phones generally have an output of 3 to 5 volts, while the human body doesn't feel a shock until 36 volts. Should a faulty wire be involved with the charger, than a shock of 220 volts might be possible. The charger in question was said to be an original model, not one made by a third-party supplier.
Shares of Apple are down about 0.3 percent.
Xinhua reported over the weekend that a flight attendant with China Southern Airlines may have been electrocuted by her iPhone 5. Sources said the attendant was picking up her iPhone 5 to answer it while it was being charged at the time of the incident.
Apple issued a statement saying that the company planned to "thoroughly investigate" the incident to get to the root of the cause.
Officials in China haven't directly tied the iPhone 5 to the death, yet.
Mobile phones generally have an output of 3 to 5 volts, while the human body doesn't feel a shock until 36 volts. Should a faulty wire be involved with the charger, than a shock of 220 volts might be possible. The charger in question was said to be an original model, not one made by a third-party supplier.
Shares of Apple are down about 0.3 percent.
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