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  • 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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[-] [email protected] 122 points 1 year ago

3-5 Coins? Are they fucking nuts?!

Everyone knows 8 is the luckiest number.

3-5 averages to 4 which is extremely unlucky

*smdh*

[-] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago

You have a suspiciously strong grasp of Chinese culture

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Auspiciously even.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

But 3 + 5 = 8.

Is addition an unluckier operation than averaging?

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Clearly - addition has 8 letters

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[-] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago

Why in the shitfuck would anyone feel the urge to throw coins at a fking plane? Ashame this was not highlighted in the summary

[-] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago

Superstitious dumbfucks. Same energy as buying rhino horn for erectile dysfunction

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Wait, rhino horn doesn't work?

[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

No you need human horn for that.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's circular reasoning.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

No you need something pointed.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You have to scratch the right part of the prostate with it. That's where most people get it wrong.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Of course it works!

Horn makes you horny and big horn make you big horny!

It's only logical /s

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Duh. Everyone knows the cure for erectile dysfunction is lottery tickets

[-] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Not all airports use a bridge. Many use stairs to get up. That lets you get right next to the engine.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I figured. Still at a loss for words

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Oh, it'll bring luck alright. Probably not the kind they want though.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

"May this trip be swift and leave me firmly back on the ground"

* throws some coins into the plane engine *

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

We did coins on the tracks to flatten them for fun!

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I've gotten on planes at Toronto from the tarmac multiple times. It just depends.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I know there are a lot of smaller airports which use a bus system

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

even bigger ones

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Have you ever boarded a plane in China?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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).

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Weird, why would people from an enlightened new age modern country do this?

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

The age might be enlightened and the country might be modern, but people will always find a way to be stupid.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's just a variation on magical thinking

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The easy fix for this is clearly just adding a Y to the end of 'Luck' airlines.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


A major Chinese airline has warned passengers not to throw coins into its planes' engines after an incident last week.

China Southern Airlines posted a five-minute video on Weibo explaining how actions like "throwing coins at the plane" can delay flights and threaten safety.

"If they pose a threat to aviation safety, they will also face varying degrees of penalties," it said in a post on the social network.

On Wednesday, March 6, the airline's domestic flight from the southern region of Hainan to the capital, Beijing, was delayed by four hours, data from Flightradar24 shows.

According to the Liberty Times, a video posted online shows a flight attendant saying that a passenger threw "three to five coins" into the Airbus A350's engine.

In 2019, Chinese airline Lucky Air sued a passenger for $21,000 for throwing two coins into a plane's engine, which he said was for good luck, per Simple Flying.


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