by "user314" (user314)
Published 06/28/2017 at 14:30
by "user314" (user314)
Published 06/28/2017 at 14:30
Tags: Airlines
; China
; FOD
; WTF
STARS: 7
A flight in China was delayed for five hours after an elderly passenger threw coins into the aircraft’s engine for good luck.
The 80-year-old passenger, surnamed Qiu, was boarding the China Southern Airlines flight from Shanghai to Guangzhou with her family when she stopped to make the ‘blessings’.
Then she threw nine coins at the aircraft’s engine turbine. Concerned fellow passengers alerted airline staff.
Wait,the flight was leaving Shanghai ? I wonder if she was in Sydney a couple weeks back.
The Independent continues:
It prompted a full examination of the engine, which in turn led to the evacuation of 150 passengers. The flight was delayed the flight for five hours.
Eight of the coins missed but one landed inside the engine, airport officials told the Agence France Presse news agency.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
06/28/2017 at 14:34, STARS: 18
5 hour delay? What bad luck! Imagine how bad it would have been if they hadn’t thrown the coins!
"Svend" (svend)
06/28/2017 at 14:46, STARS: 4
"Shoop" (shoopdawoop993)
06/28/2017 at 15:42, STARS: 2
“Eight of the coins missed”
The jokes just write themselves
"Berang" (berang)
06/28/2017 at 15:56, STARS: 1
Lol, I love throwing coins into an airplane’s fountains.
"ThePlasticOne - no diggities expressed nor implied." (theplasticone)
06/28/2017 at 18:12, STARS: 1
Even funnier in cultural context: eight is the Chinese lucky number.