Man Who Threw Coins Near Jet Engine For Good Luck Slapped With $17,000 Fine

How many ruined business meetings and vacations have airline flight cancellations and delays been responsible for?

I have sympathy for this guy, who didn't know how jet engines work (how many people do?) and who was clearly not motivated by malice. I have sympathy for the other passengers who missed their flight as well. I have NO SYMPATHY for the airline. Airline carriers stick it to consumers left and right--this snafu just feels like poetic justice to me.

perhaps throwing a few handfuls of salt over his shoulder would have been a better move..that is supposed to bring good luck as well,but I dont think that is an oriental custom!

Where does his Brain rest I wonder ? when he starts to board an Airliner !!! I bet those already ON the plane were hopping mad about that stupid act.

Wow, Talk about throwing money away. He did great

This is probably the cause of the German built Trent 1000 problems.

Perhaps if you're not boarding from jetbridges/jetways you need to post a member of ground staff (or the Flight Engineer or on long haul flights the Navigator) in front of the boarding side engine to prevent this.

When modern technology meets a population just emerging from its superstitious past.

some sort of prison time or onerous community service might also have help make the point here that such behavior is most unlucky, and coins will not restore good luck.

He's flying on Lucky Air. He wasn't so lucky.