Bizarre In China is for the third time in a short period of time an air passenger arrested during the boarding geluksmuntjes’ on the fuselage and in the direction of the spinning jet engines threw. According to the Chinese authorities is a 31-year-old man with extreme fear of flying that is on the verge of a domestic flight with the airline, Hainan Airlines .
The traveler ran against the lamp because cameras in the ‘trunk’ in the direction of aircraft registered that he was something to the outside threw. A short time later, two coins on the asphalt under the unit is found, after which the man was held. Xia, the man in question, traveled together with his wife and their four month old baby to his mother-in-law. During his interrogation, told the traveler that he is, the coins had rolled after a urgent advice of his mother-in-law. “According to her, that brought happiness, because our baby for the first time would fly.”
The man continues to be at least ten days in detention. His wife and child were allowed from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport in the province of Hubei and fly to their final destination. By the incident ran to the flight delay of almost an hour and would be around a hundred passengers severely harmed are lost, because they transfer flights missed. The financial damage will be fully recovered from the ‘gelukszoeker’.
The throwing of coins against aircraft begins in China as become a trend. Last month, two young women held, because they have money threw to a unit is a unit of Lucky Air . In February complained the same carrier, a 28-year-old man who during the boarding two ‘geluksmuntjes’ to the jet engines threw. The incident was a domestic flight between the cities of Anqing and Kunming delayed. Sure 162 passengers arrived only a day later at their destination, and the economic loss was subsequently calculated on the equivalent of some 17.600 euro caused. That amount is charged to the man who, at most, a few tens of euros for his ticket had been paid.
“Never do”
The throwing of coins in jet engines can cause damage and even total destruction of the drive system. Ouyang Jie, a civil aviation specialist expert, told China Daily that such defects during a flight pressure and the loss in speed can cause. “In the worst case, stops the engine entirely, and is a potential disaster in the offing. Throwing coins to the aircraft is therefore a very large risk. Never do so,” says Ouyang Jie. The Chinese authorities should consider an information campaign, that travellers have to point out the dangers of throwing coins against aircraft, and the penalties that apply to it.
