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submitted 6 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world
  • 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.
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[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 122 points 6 months ago

3-5 Coins? Are they fucking nuts?!

Everyone knows 8 is the luckiest number.

3-5 averages to 4 which is extremely unlucky

*smdh*

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 56 points 6 months ago

You have a suspiciously strong grasp of Chinese culture

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 7 points 6 months ago

Auspiciously even.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

But 3 + 5 = 8.

Is addition an unluckier operation than averaging?

[-] casmael@lemm.ee 18 points 6 months ago

Clearly - addition has 8 letters

[-] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 2 points 6 months ago

But the original comment says, 3-5 that's clearly negative 2.

Learn to count people /s

[-] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

Removing the metal objects from the plane would cause issues. Boeing has been testing this for a while.

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