A Chinese airline warned passengers not to throw coins into plane engines after an Airbus A350 was delayed for 4 hours
businessinsider.com
- China Southern Airlines warned passengers on social media not to throw coins at planes.
- A Wednesday flight was delayed four hours after such an incident.
- In a video, a flight attendant tells confused passengers someone threw "three to five coins" into the engine.
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Every time you think you know how dumb people can be, they find a new way to surprise you.
I might ask a dumb question as well... But how does a passenger even accomplish that? From inside the plane? Just before boarding? On a high tower throwing coins downward on a low flying plane? Wutttt
Not all airports use a bridge. Many use stairs to get up. That lets you get right next to the engine.
Yeah I figured. Still at a loss for words
Especially since it already happened relatively recently.
Having had a dirt poor illiterate farmer grandmother, I can totally see how some people with the best of intentions might make presumptions about things which sound really stupid for most people.
I mean, at some point when I was a kid and she was staying with us, my grandmother got really confused when she saw the same actor in multiple soap operas because she thought soap operas were real and we had to explain to her the concept of theatre acting.
Ultimatelly it boils down to that person having or not the kind of personality which recognizes their own ignorance on a subject and refrains from acting on such presumptions, and clearly in this case somebody ignorantly presumed it would be a good thing and went ahead and did it.