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muriel_volestrangler

(102,754 posts) Tue Jun 27, 2017, 10:54 AM Jun 2017

Coins thrown into plane engine by elderly passenger for 'luck'

A superstitious elderly passenger delayed a flight in Shanghai after throwing coins at the engine for good luck, a Chinese airline has confirmed.

The 80-year-old woman threw her change at the China Southern Airlines flight as she crossed the tarmac to board.

She told police she launched the coins as she "prayed for safety" on Tuesday.

Of the nine coins launched, only one hit its intended target - but this was enough to force the evacuation of 150 passengers for several hours.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40421811

Someone who definitely hasn't got the idea of technology yet ...

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Coins thrown into plane engine by elderly passenger for 'luck' (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jun 2017 OP

Oh, dear. Lol. Just imagining the faces of those in charge Hortensis Jun 2017 #1

Prayer changes things. defacto7 Jun 2017 #2

So do jet ways. rsdsharp Jun 2017 #3

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

1. Oh, dear. Lol. Just imagining the faces of those in charge

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Jun 27, 2017, 11:04 AM

Jun 2017

with this update to their "seen everything" notions.

Bless her heart, as we say in here in the South.

defacto7

(13,680 posts)

2. Prayer changes things.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Jun 27, 2017, 11:37 AM

Jun 2017

rsdsharp

(10,358 posts)

3. So do jet ways.

Reply to defacto7 (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 27, 2017, 12:28 PM

Jun 2017

Not only do they prevent old people from being able to throw coins into engines, they prevent people from having airplanes taxi by a hundred feet away, which happened to me in China several times.

For the most part the airports resembled run down bus stations. (This was in 1991).

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