- 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.
3-5 Coins? Are they fucking nuts?!
Everyone knows 8 is the luckiest number.
3-5 averages to 4 which is extremely unlucky
*smdh*
But the original comment says, 3-5 that’s clearly negative 2.
Learn to count people /s
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
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.
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.
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.
Hicks are everywhere.
Also note China modernized faster than any country. China went from farming-based to post-industrial in about 30 years and population behaviours and beliefs didn’t follow it at same speed. So they have more hicks with ability to damage stuff than most of Africa and Central Asia
Particularly in some areas where you might have a community whose most technological device was a tractor a few short years ago, a bunch of developers show up, throw money at them, and they’ve basically time-travelled into the future when they decide to use that money to go on a trip.
How did they even have access to do this? The only time I’ve boarded a plane without a jetway in decades was at a smallish airport (Warsaw) that had scheduling issues and we had to get bused out to a “gate” that was just a parking spot out on the apron.
No but I looked up the flight, and the airport it used in Hainan (SYX) has a number of gates with jetways, which are generally preferred for use. It’s not a podunk airfield in rural China.
Thanks for the info. That’s crazy. They were smart enough to get a clean line to the engine, and so incredibly stupid they threw coins into it.
But they still probably use buses on occasion. Also, it’s not exactly hard for a passenger to step through the little doors to the stairs at the end of the jetway, chuck a coin, then continue boarding.
In Lisbon to board some of the planes a bus that takes you to where the plane is and then you climb up some stairs.
In London Luton you walk from the building to the plane and climb some stairs to board.
In my experience, even in Europe it will happen in low cost airports (such as Luton) or those which have too much traffic for their actual boarding facilities (the one in Lisbon which is almost in the center of the city and has by now been planned to be replaced for 4 decades, all the while tourist number have exploded to something like 10 million per year, so even with the expansion that was possible to do, there are simply not enough jetways for all flights).
Also in general little provincial, small city, “airports” (I used quotes because some amount to little more than airfields) almost never have jetways though at times are served by passenger jet planes (typically the kind of mid-size ones made by the likes of Embraer).
Did you throw a coin in the engine at Warsaw?!?!? I think you’ve had good luck. It’s not uncommon, probably because there are a lot of smallish airports with chronic scheduling issues. It’s even more common to disembark that way, though the “good luck prayer” excuse holds even less weight in that scenario, LOL.
No, but those were prop aircraft, Dash 8s I think. The intake is a much smaller target.
Great. Now to make it hard and virile they’ll need to go back to throwing rhino horn, shark fins, and snakes on the plane.
