- 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.
No but I looked up the flight, and the airport it used in Hainan (SYX) has a number of gates with jetways, which are generally preferred for use. It’s not a podunk airfield in rural China.
Thanks for the info. That’s crazy. They were smart enough to get a clean line to the engine, and so incredibly stupid they threw coins into it.
The seal team six of stupid
But they still probably use buses on occasion. Also, it’s not exactly hard for a passenger to step through the little doors to the stairs at the end of the jetway, chuck a coin, then continue boarding.
Those doors are alarmed (at least in the US).
They’re also frequently propped open worldwide to handle gate checked bags.