A Chinese airline warned passengers not to throw coins into plane engines after an Airbus A350 was delayed for 4 hours
A Chinese airline warned passengers not to throw coins into plane engines after an Airbus A350 was delayed for 4 hours
China Southern Airlines posted a five-minute video on Weibo warning passengers against actions like "throwing coins at the plane."
- China Southern Airlines warned passengers on social media not to throw coins at planes.
- A Wednesday flight was delayed four hours after such an incident.
- In a video, a flight attendant tells confused passengers someone threw "three to five coins" into the engine.
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Why in the shitfuck would anyone feel the urge to throw coins at a fking plane? Ashame this was not highlighted in the summary
Superstitious dumbfucks. Same energy as buying rhino horn for erectile dysfunction
Wait, rhino horn doesn't work?
No you need human horn for that.
That's circular reasoning.
No you need something pointed.
This is tubesteak erasure
You're thinking of the lower horn.
You have to scratch the right part of the prostate with it. That's where most people get it wrong.
Of course it works!
Horn makes you horny and big horn make you big horny!
It's only logical /s
Only rhino milk. Coincidentally the key ingredient in printer ink - hence the absurd prices.
Not saying they aren't superstitious, but i have never heard of the act of throwing coins into a jet engine as part of any superstition.
It's not that they're specifically throwing coins at the engine, but that the superstition is to chuck some coins at a thing to try and get some luck on your side. Like a mix of wishing well and good luck charm.
The engine is probably because it's accessible, and they're unlikely to miss when hitting it. You also just don't hear stories from people who do chuck a coin at the wing, or into the cabin, because it doesn't cause any problems, so doesn't make news.
Duh. Everyone knows the cure for erectile dysfunction is lottery tickets
This isn't the first time a passenger has thrown coins into a plane's engine.
CNN reported that it happened on another Chinese Southern Airlines flight in 2017, when an elderly passenger said it was "a prayer for a safe flight."
Every time you think you know how dumb people can be, they find a new way to surprise you.
I might ask a dumb question as well... But how does a passenger even accomplish that? From inside the plane? Just before boarding? On a high tower throwing coins downward on a low flying plane? Wutttt
Not all airports use a bridge. Many use stairs to get up. That lets you get right next to the engine.
Yeah I figured. Still at a loss for words
Especially since it already happened relatively recently.
Having had a dirt poor illiterate farmer grandmother, I can totally see how some people with the best of intentions might make presumptions about things which sound really stupid for most people.
I mean, at some point when I was a kid and she was staying with us, my grandmother got really confused when she saw the same actor in multiple soap operas because she thought soap operas were real and we had to explain to her the concept of theatre acting.
Ultimatelly it boils down to that person having or not the kind of personality which recognizes their own ignorance on a subject and refrains from acting on such presumptions, and clearly in this case somebody ignorantly presumed it would be a good thing and went ahead and did it.
It's for luck. Like throwing coins into a well or on train tracks. No one said it was a good idea. But it makes some folks feel more calm about their journey, despite wrecking havoc on a turbofan.
Oh, it'll bring luck alright. Probably not the kind they want though.
"May this trip be swift and leave me firmly back on the ground"
* throws some coins into the plane engine *
We did coins on the tracks to flatten them for fun!
I’ve been on planes with groups of people who obviously have never flown before and were getting up and walking around during take off. This does not surprise me at all.