• 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.
  • hangukdise@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Also note China modernized faster than any country. China went from farming-based to post-industrial in about 30 years and population behaviours and beliefs didn’t follow it at same speed. So they have more hicks with ability to damage stuff than most of Africa and Central Asia

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      10 months ago

      Particularly in some areas where you might have a community whose most technological device was a tractor a few short years ago, a bunch of developers show up, throw money at them, and they’ve basically time-travelled into the future when they decide to use that money to go on a trip.