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July 15, 2011, updated at 02: 21 the child's weight and the number of plants will affect impact owners of a boy who fell from 10 floors and survived after being caught by a Walker has been doing around the world. But what is the best way to detect a fallen child?

Zhang Fangyu, better known by his nickname Niu Niu, has become a famous two-year, particularly in his native China.

The child has awakened from a coma for ten days after the fall from the window of the apartment of his family, in the Eastern Province of Zhejiang, this month. His fall was broken by a 31-year-old woman, Wu Juping, who was eliminated by the impact and broke his arm.

Physicists say the key to minimizing damage to both children and catcher is trying to spread the energy of the impact for so long as possible, perhaps by far to fall while you catch.

Events like this are rare in real life, although newspapers will usually have stories of one or two a year.

In April, a mother of Nottinghamshire saved the life of a 16 month-old who fell 40 feet (12 m) from a balcony of the hotel in Florida. Helen Beard, 44, was the pool when he saw that the child was about to fall. She ran and got that you pick up in arms, as both fell to the ground.

In 2010, an 18-month-old boy survived a fall from a sixth-floor Paris apartment doing bounce out of a tent and in the arms of a doctor in passing. Also last year, a child of four years in Turkey was caught by a merchant after climbing up the side of an escalator.

It is well documented that in such circumstances, the child often has better prospects of survival as an adult. This may be because children are more flexible, less brilliant bones. A body of smaller mass may also mean that it is possible that a person to break his fall.

Does but there is one person can do something to help them capture a fallen child?

Purely hypothetically, physicist Dr. Lisa Jardine-Wright has considered that the main factors involved and apply the laws of physics to the situation.

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a few seconds for people to fall fairly long distances. "There will be little time to consider practical steps"

final quote Andy Kettle fire service College Dr Jardine-Wright, of the Cavendish laboratory, Cambridge University, said the heavy object falling, greater will be the Force felt by the object and the catcher.

"A ball bowling from 10 kg to fall at the speed of the baby would oblige the person back in around 7 mph considering that Apple would produce a barely perceptible decline of less than 0.1 km/h".

The force will also be higher if the fall is of 10 floors instead of three as the speed will be increased by the time of capture.

"Everything that is receiving the collision, as either a wall or a mattress or a car or someone to capture a baby, if you can transfer the energy of the collision over time rather than instantly, then, the impact is reduced.

She says that could compare drop child stage with goalkeepers in football and cricket gardeners, that rather than remain rigid and straight, they often fall that they catch the ball.

"If fell and he was called to the baby that can help to as they are reducing the impact of the capture." You want to be able to drop safely, so that grass and soil will be a little more than say concrete.

"Weapons is going to take some of the force, so it would help if they were relaxed and loose".

Using the analogy of specialists in films of Action fall through safety netting before falling to the ground, he added: "if they can slow down the object down however do so, then it will help."

"If you could put something on the ground, some kind of material which extends rather than rest, part of the energy will be absorbed in the material and the baby gently brought paralysis".

From the laboratory into reality, a Walker faced a fallen child would have little time to weigh up the situation.

Andy Kettle, operational director of the fire service College, says there is nothing anyone can do in those accidents "freak".

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He says that it is not part of their training as it would never be enough time to get to the scene with a springboard or mattress.

"There is no team that we could put in his place or techniques", he said.

"It happens so quickly and is a very unexpected event, the person would have little or no control over their own bodies and of the people on the ground, if a small child, is an attempt to hit or miss to soften the fall."

"A few seconds for people to fall fairly long distances." "There will be little time to think about practical measures."

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