The Chinese continue to try to throw metal pieces in the aircraft engines to get lucky

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For the seventh time in the last two years, a Chinese man was arrested for trying to drop a handful of metal parts into an airplane engine, for his good luck.

On Monday morning, a 66-year-old woman, nicknamed Wang, was arrested for trying to throw six pieces of metal into the engine of a Tianjin Airlines plane just before takeoff, to ensure the safety of the trip. Fortunately, the pieces ended up on the ground rather than the multi-million dollar engine and were noticed by an airport employee before the plane departed. When an announcement was made, asking the one who had thrown the pieces to show up, Wang refused to badume his responsibilities, but she quickly identified him with the help of & # # #,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 39, a monitoring sequence.

The superstitious woman was arrested at the Hohhot airport, the capital of Inner Mongolia, and placed in administrative detention for 10 days. The other pbadengers had to be moved to another plane and their flight to Chifeng City was delayed by two hours.

The incident comes just a month after a 31-year-old man was arrested for attempting to drop coins into the engine of a Hainan Airlines plane, in order to guarantee a robbery. sure for him and his family. He was seen depositing three small coins through the narrow gap between the jet bridge and the aircraft. Fortunately, he missed his target, but his attempt still led him to jail for 10 days. In January, Chinese media reported that two out of twenty women were arrested at Jinan Yaoqiang International Airport in Shandong Province for the same.

Shangha.ist reports that at least seven cases of people trying to throw metal pieces into the aircraft engines for good luck have already been registered this year. These attempts have been making headlines in the international press since 2017, and their popularity is becoming more popular, or the media report cases more diligently than they did before.

At first, airlines were quite lenient with pbadengers to throw coins into aircraft engines, but as such incidents became more frequent, some took a tougher stance. For example, in February this year, Chinese airline Lucky Air sued a pbadenger for US $ 20,000 for delaying his plane for several hours while trying to drop parts into his engine.

Fortunately, all attempts to throw parts into the aircraft engines have failed, as the metal pieces landed on the ground, but if such a superstitious person managed to reach his target, the consequences could be devastating. Ouyang Jie, a professor at the University of China's Civil Aviation, told Asia One that if a coin reaches the heart of the engine, it might prevent it from running in full flight .

Modern aircraft engines are designed to handle many types of foreign objects, debris found on airport runways to birds or hail, but small pieces of refined metal do not appear on the list. In the best case, they could damage the engine fan blades and if they enter the engine, they could cause catastrophic damage. That's why companies are still stopping their flights and making sure that all the coins that are launched are counted.