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For the seventh time in the last year, a man was arrested in China, tried to throw a handful of little things directly into a working turbine passenger plane.
Many will probably assume that we are talking about a saboteur or to a terrorist, at least crazy, but any reality times it turns out to be much more prosaic. The fact is that among residents There is one very strange and dangerous belief in China: they say, if you throw a handful of coins into the engine of the airliner, then the flight will be safe.
As you might guess, the irony is that in fact in fact, foreign bodies in an airplane turbine can cause disaster. Alas, an unnamed 66-year-old Chinese woman arrested in Monday at Hohhot, and many of its compatriots do not understand the dangers of such an act. Female tried to throw six coins into the engine, but fortunately they ended up on the ground. However, airport staff were forced to delay the flight.
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Despite the fact that modern aircraft turbines are capable of withstand the ingress of foreign objects such as birds and hail, small metal bodies like coins do not belong here. If the little thing is inside, it will damage the blades at best. screw, and in the worst – will lead to critical engine failure. It remains to be rejoiced that because of the highest vigilance employees of Chinese airports, no airliner yet took off with coins in a turbine.
No one knows where this ridiculous sign came from, however China’s airlines have been confronted with such an absurdity for many years. At first, some of them even showed condescension to such stupid antics of passengers, however with time, when attempts throw into the turbines a trifle began to be undertaken by the inhabitants of the country all more often, carriers have become much stricter. So, in February of this year local airline “Lucky Air” condemned one of these fanatics 20 thousand dollars.
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