Chinese woman throws coins in to engine for good luck!

[Bowyn Aerrow]

This has nothing to do with different-time-different-place. This is plain stupidity. Inexcusable. She should be given some jail time and suspended from flying.

80 years is a long time to live and around age 50 people start stiffening up and refusing to bend in their will. Around age 40 is when people start shunning that "modern crap those kids call music".

Those are only two examples how age puts one behind the times. Think of all the old people who refuse to give up their land-lines, think of all the old people who just didn't get net safety and download all of those malicious software even after the grand kids sat them down and explained for the thousandth time about net safety.

This woman most likely had no real understanding of what she was doing, and most likely will never fully understand this "jet engine thing". And yes, she believes in other gods than the western world, and throwing coins for "luck" is part of her life.

Thankfully nothing major happened, but maybe the airlines will consider how to make boarding and unboarding of these machines safer for the old timers who might be senile, antiquated in their belief systems.

I have no doubt that this woman grew up and lived in one of those provinces where modern machinery is/was rare.

We also have to understand that China is a recent joiner tot he First World party, and that is only because of markets and money. Much of China is still in development stage. The kids over there are getting an education that is light years removed from what their parents got and even further from Grandmothers and Grandfathers.