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In yet another incident, a Chinese passenger was detained after tossing coins the aircraft operating China Southern flight 8427 from Nanning to Bangkok. She is reportedly a first-time flier and the coin-toss ritual was for good luck, which has been the same story in each of these incidents. The incident was captured on CCTV.
After a delay of 78 minutes, during which all the coins were all found and removed, the flight finally took off for Bangkok.
Toss coins in fountains, not flying machines
This is not the first coin-toss incident. There have been at least six this year. The “tradition” started with the first incident in 2017 when an elderly woman tossed a handful of coins at a China Southern aircraft in…