Posted on 02/26/2019 9:32:20 AM PST by LucyT
A Chinese airline is reportedly pressing charges against a passenger who threw coins at a plane engine ahead of a recent flight for "good luck."
The man’s actions allegedly caused roughly $21,000 in damages and delayed travel plans for 160-plus passengers, who were forced to wait until the following day to fly out.
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What’s going to prevent the engine from sucking the screen in?
I want to know what Florida Man was doing at an airport in China.
The pilot’s name was Ho Lee Sheet.
This happens from time to time...illiterate Chinese passengers do strange things.
dumbest?
When I was in the navy at Miramar NAS-
the plane watch (weekend guard for the squadrons planes)
was caught throwing plane panel screws into the engine!
He claimed ignorance of what he was doing-
Put in the brig- not sure what happened to him-
China has their own Florida man now.
Reverse engineered of course. So it looks like Florida man but doesn’t work as well as the original.
SMH.
lol. What a dope.
Feel kinda bad for him now.
Glad to see America is not the only country to have loose retards running around.
A small piece of metal caused the concord crash in France in 2000.
Foreign object debris (FOD) can cause damage that costs airlines and airports millions of dollars every year. FOD is any object that does not belong in or near airplanes and, as a result, can injure airport or airline personnel and damage airplanes.
I do IT support for a company at an airport I have been on FOD walls looking for any small object that the engine could damage the engine.
People who work on them have told me that jet engines have long been amazingly rugged (and safe) but nobody in their right mind gets lax about foreign objects and debris around them.
lol!
The problem with putting a screen in the intake is that as the air speed increases, the holes in the screen have to grow larger, or the screening serves to block off air flow.
At 600 miles an hour, even 4x4 fencing would be nearly the same as a plywood sheet, solid.
All we can do is make the intake compressor blades as strong as possible and calculate the statistical probability of FOD.
A lot of older Chinese are not convinced that flight isn't magic. They are VERY superstitious. Witness any casino, and the racial makeup of the clientele. You can't convince them that the odds are with the house.
While boarding, I will pause at the threshold and kiss my palm and place the kiss on the door frame. Just for luck. But coins? Into the engine??!! Holy carp.
Top grade stupidity.
No; at the velocity air enters a jet engine intake a screen resembles a solid metal plate not just in pure cross-section reduction, but the turbulence around the cross-wires would be enormously disruptive. Probably produce at least a 35% power reduction if not more = unacceptable.
That’s crazy!
... threw nine coins at an engine ...
Buddhist.
Witness any casino, and the racial makeup of the clientele.
Our local casino in the Midwest is bereft of such gamblers. I don’t know how they’ll make it.
I think you mean “FOD walks”. This is an activity that unites bomber crews and ground crews in the USAF. So I am told by those who have been there, done that.
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