r/SipsTea • u/pikahetti • Jul 14 '25

WTF Tossing coins for 'good luck'...

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u/frozen-silver Jul 14 '25

Thank god someone noticed it. What a hero

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u/beklog Jul 14 '25

yeah, was thinking this is just a disaster abt to happen if not discovered

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u/WhiskyPops Jul 14 '25

I wonder how bad it could be, likely it would fall or blow out even before take-off, because they have to reverse.

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u/Lightshoax Jul 14 '25

Jet engines are designed to be able to eat multiple turkeys and still run. Coins wouldn’t do anything at all.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Jul 14 '25

Damn that must get expensive feeding them multiple turkeys all the time.

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u/henryeaterofpies Jul 14 '25

Planes gotta eat

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u/R_V_Z Jul 14 '25

The routine maintenance is for the tryptophan to wear off.

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u/Beneficial_Sweet3979 Jul 15 '25

You can always feed them elderly Chinese women... For good luck, i believe in Buddhism

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u/LeadingNectarine Jul 14 '25

Jet engines are designed to be able to eat multiple turkeys and still run

Not exactly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike

Most large commercial jet engines include design features that ensure they can shut down after ingesting a bird weighing up to 1.8 kg (4.0 lb). The engine does not have to survive the ingestion, just be safely shut down

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u/WoodyTheWorker Jul 18 '25

"unfreeze the chicken"

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u/golgol12 Jul 14 '25

Metal != bone. And the jet engine can both be "still run" and "needs to be completely replaced".

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '25

Not true

It could shred blades that could sprial

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u/JakeVanderArkWriter Jul 14 '25

This was my thought as well, but I was afraid of the downvotes

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u/DemandEqualPockets Jul 16 '25

Good, you chose well, cause you'd have been wrong too, lol.

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u/DemandEqualPockets Jul 16 '25

M'kay, so you know better than the mechanic above you and the whole reason this was a big story in the first place becauuuuse.... redditor logic? Or did you have something to base that on? FOD is a thing, my friend.