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.
Why would America pilots try to speak Chinese? The official language of aviation worldwide is English.
Eh, that would be Engrish.
I’m aware of that——but finding humor in someone’s inability to speak a language fluently is not something that I feel deserves ridicule.
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so what
In the military, tossing coins into a jet engine was considered sabotage.
That’ll get her an appointment with the mobile execution van.
I’m sure it is here too. The 80 year old that did back in June probably was not charged, but this one may not be so lucky. 8>)
I think she’ll be okay.
I lived in Shanghai for 3 years, visited several Buddist temples. Burning insense and tossing coins are part of the religion.
To the aging Chinese population, jet aircraft are alien space ships.
They just need to post big warning signs against throwing coins in the engine.
On another note - I do recall the Shanghai Daily had a column similar to our obituary section listing all the people who had been executed that week and for what crimes.
LG was the merger of Lucky and Goldstar.
I flew via domestic flight in China back in 2001. Went from Shanghai Pudong airport to Tianjin, near Beijing.
When plane landed at Tianjin airport, I was seated on starboard side. Plane taxis up to gate. No jetway, and there's this crowd of what appeared to be thirty or forty guys standing around, right where it looked to me like our nose wheel would come to rest. Of course, I couldn't see our nose wheel, but as we approached the crowd, I could see them moving out of the way as the landing gear moved into it.
I'm thinking "What's this, a welcoming committee? Is there some dignitary on this flight?"
Nope. Those guys were the baggage conveyor system. Once plane came to rest, they swarm over to the baggage compartment, open the door, and quickly form a human chain, tossing luggage man-to-man into the terminal.
I guess they were standing near the nose wheel so they would be clear of the engines, which were (of course) still running as we neared our parking place.
I don't know if this is still the case in China. A lot has changed there, but they also consider capital more dear than people. In China, replacing a backhoe with fifty humans holding fifty shovels is normal, at least from my observation.
The Chinese have the kinds and quantities of superstitions that only 5,000 years of continuous history and culture can provide. And I’ll bet that engine made some very intriguing sounds as it ate the coins.
You’re most welcome. I’ll bet you were looking at one of the airlines’ maintenance facilities — they take that stuff really seriously.
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