- 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*
You have a suspiciously strong grasp of Chinese culture
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But 3 + 5 = 8.
Is addition an unluckier operation than averaging?
Clearly - addition has 8 letters
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.
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I’ve gotten on planes at Toronto from the tarmac multiple times. It just depends.
I know there are a lot of smaller airports which use a bus system
even bigger ones
Airports charge money to use the Skybridge. If you travel with cheap airlines then you’ll often go to gates without bridges. It’s actually amazing the things that airports charge for.
Have you ever boarded a plane in China?
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.
The seal team six of stupid
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).
That’s… Most of the flights I’ve taken.
Really? Which airports do you usually use?
I don’t really have ones I regularly use, but in the past few years: CPH, CNX, BKK, DMK, PNH, TFS, INI, BEG, AGP, MAN.
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.
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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.
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Eyyy hey hey . . . how you doin?
The easy fix for this is clearly just adding a Y to the end of ‘Luck’ airlines.
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
Duh. Everyone knows the cure for erectile dysfunction is lottery tickets
