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China Southern Flight delayed after woman throws coins into engine.
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:15 pm
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:15 pm
A flight out of Shanghai to Guangzhou, China, was delayed for several hours after a superstitious passenger decided to throw a bunch of coins at the plane's engine
Daily UK
the elderly woman was spotted on the tarmac throwing coins at the plane's engine while preparing to board China Southern Airlines flight CZ380. Thankfully, another passenger spotted the 80-year-old woman and alerted the proper authorities.
According to the cops, the woman threw the coins in order to "pray for good luck."
Police detained the woman, and 150 passengers were taken off the plane while the ground crew painstakingly retrieved the good luck charms. Eight of the coins missed, but one coin was lodged into the plane's engine, which is not a good thing.
The plane did eventually take off, but it was delayed by more than five hours thanks to the woman's coin toss.
Daily UK
the elderly woman was spotted on the tarmac throwing coins at the plane's engine while preparing to board China Southern Airlines flight CZ380. Thankfully, another passenger spotted the 80-year-old woman and alerted the proper authorities.
According to the cops, the woman threw the coins in order to "pray for good luck."
Police detained the woman, and 150 passengers were taken off the plane while the ground crew painstakingly retrieved the good luck charms. Eight of the coins missed, but one coin was lodged into the plane's engine, which is not a good thing.
The plane did eventually take off, but it was delayed by more than five hours thanks to the woman's coin toss.
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Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:16 pm to Tigeralum2008
How does an 80 year old woman stroll onto a tarmac?
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:16 pm to Tigeralum2008
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but one coin was lodged into the plane's engine, which is not a good thing.
fabulous writing.
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:18 pm to Chad504boy
Check out this twitter of crabs escaping from a bag at JFK
twitter.com/flightorg is getting a follow from me
twitter.com/flightorg is getting a follow from me
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:19 pm to Chad504boy
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fabulous writing.
Don't blame me Baw! I dindu the writing it was all quoted directly from the article.
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:20 pm to Tigeralum2008
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one coin was lodged into the plane's engine, which is not a good thing.
And they say journalism is lost.
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:22 pm to J Murdah
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How does an 80 year old woman stroll onto a tarmac?
Boarding via a stairway on the tarmac is common in airports outside of the US.
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:23 pm to J Murdah
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How does an 80 year old woman stroll onto a tarmac?
Uhhh, many planes/airports require the passengers to walk onto the tarmac and board via a staircase.
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:24 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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Uhhh, many planes/airports require the passengers to walk onto the tarmac and board via a staircase.
I think he meant in more along the lines of "why wasn't anyone there making sure the passengers don't walk right up to the engines?"
This post was edited on 6/28/17 at 4:25 pm
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:28 pm to Tigeralum2008
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:28 pm to Tigeralum2008
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:29 pm to BulldogXero
Seriously? apologies...
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:29 pm to Tigeralum2008
Confucius say it better to use credit card for in flight movie than ask flight attendant for change.
This post was edited on 6/28/17 at 6:34 pm
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:33 pm to Tigeralum2008
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China Southern
enroute to Frankfurt no doubt
btw: that engine would laugh(if it even noticed,) at a handful of coins
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:44 pm to rmnldr
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I think he meant in more along the lines of "why wasn't anyone there making sure the passengers don't walk right up to the engines?"
I'm not sure what you want them to do? As someone stated, tarmac boarding and deplaning on the tarmac at international airports is pretty common. There are dozens of planes and thousands of passengers. How many people are you going to hire to keep people away? It is an open "field" where people could run in any direction. They rely on passengers knowing to head straight for the door following cones and markers, like how we rely on people following lane lines in our cars.
Thing is, in countries like this, there are many people who have no concept of air travel nor how to behave around aircraft.
This post was edited on 6/28/17 at 4:47 pm
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:47 pm to J Murdah
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How does an 80 year old woman stroll onto a tarmac?
You don't fly much internationally do you?
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:48 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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I'm not sure what you want them to do? As someone stated, tarmac boarding and deplaning on the tarmac at international airports is pretty common. There are dozens of planes and thousands of passengers. How many people are you going to hire to keep people away?
I mean you can just have one person making sure that no one wanders over to the jet engine. It's not like crowd control. It's idiot control. Just call them a "greeter" and there you go.
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Thing is, in countries like this, there are many people who have no concept of air travel nor how to behave around aircraft.
China is not like that but there's always the 1% of idiots who can ruin everyone's' day.
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:49 pm to rmnldr
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China is not like that but there's always the 1% of idiots who can ruin everyone's' day.
It most certainly is. China has a billion people in it, and large swaths of the country are still being modernized. For every Shanghai there are a 1,000 mud huts.
ETA: The Chinese government has to put out etiquette guides because so many of their citizens are traveling for the first time and are AWFUL.
This post was edited on 6/28/17 at 4:53 pm
Posted on 6/28/17 at 4:53 pm to J Murdah
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How does an 80 year old woman stroll onto a tarmac?
With the exception of Hong Kong, the Asian airports I flew in/out of required you to walk across the tarmac to get to the loading stair.
Posted on 6/28/17 at 5:15 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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It most certainly is. China has a billion people in it, and large swaths of the country are still being modernized. For every Shanghai there are a 1,000 mud huts.
I wasn't denying this. Just saying that Chinese people aren't full idiots like the guys in the ME or Africa who clean oil filters in a tub of gasoline while smoking a cigarette. The people that are flying on planes typically aren't that dumb. It's the 1% of the people who board.
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