Posted on 11/04/2017 11:10:21 AM PDT by Eddie01
A flight has been canceled after a 76-year-old woman was found flipping coins into aircraft engine, the airlines said Thursday.
The 8L9960 flight, scheduled Wednesday from Anqing, east China's Anhui Province, to Kunming, Yunnan Province, did not depart until 10 a.m. Thursday after a thorough safety check, said a statement by Lucky Air, a Kunming-based low-cost airline affiliated with HNA group.
The flight was grounded after airport workers noticed the woman, surnamed Fang, throwing something at the engine while boarding and later found a coin on the ground.
Fang is in police custody.
A similar case was reported in late June, when an 80-year-old woman tossed coins to the engine while boarding a China Southern Airlines flight. Neighbors of the suspect said that she was a Buddhist.
Lucky Air.
Oh, the irony.
A jet engine is not a wishing well.
To coin a phrase...
Sum ting wong with that?
Sign me up.
A Chinese airline named Lucky Air.
Lordy!
Someone needs to educate this idiot woman to the dangers of FOD (”Foreign Object Damage”) to jet engines and to the flight in general.
They must not have jetways in china. One crashed airplane can purchse a lot of them
I think Lucky is a big deal in the far est. I have heard that LG (formrly GoldStar) stands for “Lucky Star”
Of course China has jetways in the major cites.
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I used to occasionally change planes at some airport in the US and could often read through an open hangar door the words ‘it must be FOD free’ on the inside opposite wall. Thank you. Finally I know what that means :) I cannot recall what airport though...
I believe the correct pronunciation is “Rucky”.
Passengers are bussed out to planes for local flights. That is correct.
Ding dong!
Not lucky day for Miss Fang
https://youtu.be/max5aROuhlI
Chinese pilots trying to speak English.
Back in the early ‘80’s I flew into Zurich from Amsterdam. The 737 parked on the tarmac and were met by a passenger bus.
Do you have any links of American pilots trying to speak Chinese?
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Article was three weeks ago.
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