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Airline pressing charges after passenger throws coins into plane engine for 'good luck'
Fox News ^ | February 26, 2019 | Janine Puhak

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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TOPICS: Society; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: airlines; badluck; disaster; goodluck
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To: Brookhaven

What’s going to prevent the engine from sucking the screen in?


21 posted on 02/26/2019 9:50:29 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: LucyT

I want to know what Florida Man was doing at an airport in China.


22 posted on 02/26/2019 9:55:44 AM PST by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: COBOL2Java

The pilot’s name was Ho Lee Sheet.


23 posted on 02/26/2019 9:56:49 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (President Trump is right! The media IS the enemy of the people!)
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To: dp0622

This happens from time to time...illiterate Chinese passengers do strange things.


24 posted on 02/26/2019 9:57:57 AM PST by dinodino
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To: rdl6989

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-


25 posted on 02/26/2019 9:58:17 AM PST by mj1234
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To: married21

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.


26 posted on 02/26/2019 9:59:24 AM PST by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: dinodino

SMH.

lol. What a dope.

Feel kinda bad for him now.


27 posted on 02/26/2019 9:59:32 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: LucyT

Glad to see America is not the only country to have loose retards running around.


28 posted on 02/26/2019 10:00:23 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: LucyT

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.


29 posted on 02/26/2019 10:01:14 AM PST by ThomasThomas (Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.)
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To: LucyT
"Three coins in a turbine..."

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.

30 posted on 02/26/2019 10:03:30 AM PST by niteowl77 ("I am equally hostile to unbridled power whether exercised by the head or tail of society." - MD)
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To: Texas resident

lol!


31 posted on 02/26/2019 10:04:14 AM PST by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Brookhaven
"I’m no aviation expert, but are there no screens to prevent bits of debris from entering the engine?"

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.

32 posted on 02/26/2019 10:04:57 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Klemper
"WTH is wrong with people?!?!"

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.

33 posted on 02/26/2019 10:10:01 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: LucyT

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.


34 posted on 02/26/2019 10:12:28 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Atrophy of science is visible when the spokesman goes from Einstein to Sagan to Neil Degrasse Tyson.)
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To: LucyT

Top grade stupidity.


35 posted on 02/26/2019 10:13:36 AM PST by samtheman (How can there be so many brain damaged Americans?)
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To: Brookhaven

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.


36 posted on 02/26/2019 10:14:22 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: mj1234

That’s crazy!


37 posted on 02/26/2019 10:16:20 AM PST by rdl6989
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To: Mr.Unique
I thought the story was familiar.

... threw nine coins at an engine ...

Buddhist.

38 posted on 02/26/2019 10:18:10 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: jonascord

Witness any casino, and the racial makeup of the clientele.


Met up with friends at an Indian casino in Temecula, California. It seemed like all of the serious gamblers were Chinese/Oriental. The table games would be covered in chips...

Our local casino in the Midwest is bereft of such gamblers. I don’t know how they’ll make it.


39 posted on 02/26/2019 10:37:05 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: ThomasThomas

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.


40 posted on 02/26/2019 10:43:18 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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