A plane in China has been delayed after an old lady was caught throwing coins in the engine, supposedly for good luck.
On Tuesday, Flight CZ380 from Shanghai Pudong International Airport Guangzhou with 150 passengers on board was delayed after airport employees, alerted by her fellow passengers, caught an elderly woman throwing coins into the engine of the aircraft.
Qiu Mu, 80, had apparently been praying for a safe and uneventful flight, but had she not been discovered, the coins may have been sucked into the engine core, causing considerable damage to moving parts and possibly even a catastrophic engine failure.
Police were called to the scene and the flight was delayed by nearly five hours as staff searched the engines, finding eight coins on the ground and another one in the engine itself.
