China Southern Airlines posted a five-minute video on Weibo warning passengers against actions like "throwing coins at the plane."
  • 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.
  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    112·
    4 months ago

    How did they even have access to do this? The only time I’ve boarded a plane without a jetway in decades was at a smallish airport (Warsaw) that had scheduling issues and we had to get bused out to a “gate” that was just a parking spot out on the apron.

    • Luci@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      I’ve gotten on planes at Toronto from the tarmac multiple times. It just depends.

        • ABCDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          I don’t really have ones I regularly use, but in the past few years: CPH, CNX, BKK, DMK, PNH, TFS, INI, BEG, AGP, MAN.

    • macrocephalic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Airports charge money to use the Skybridge. If you travel with cheap airlines then you’ll often go to gates without bridges. It’s actually amazing the things that airports charge for.

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Did you throw a coin in the engine at Warsaw?!?!? I think you’ve had good luck. It’s not uncommon, probably because there are a lot of smallish airports with chronic scheduling issues. It’s even more common to disembark that way, though the “good luck prayer” excuse holds even less weight in that scenario, LOL.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        No, but those were prop aircraft, Dash 8s I think. The intake is a much smaller target.

        • KnightontheSun@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          4 months ago

          Warsaw, Indiana??? I know someone from there! Maybe you know them!!! His name is Dave! ;)

          I was in Indiana not long ago and because of Dave, I asked a lot of people about Warsaw, of which only a few knew about and they said it was wayyy up north.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        41·
        4 months ago

        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.

        • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          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.

        • Pips@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          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.