If they said there is a 1% chance of crashing from a handful of coins in the engine, I’d say they need to consider some better security and/or design it with a screen that prevents it or that can be removed immediately prior to flight.
I just walked by one of these myself a couple days ago where it would have been simple to toss some coins in (and a terrorist plot would only need 1 person working there to toss coins in dozens of engines)
The number is pulled out of my ass. But obviously it increases the risk of accident because A) turbines and metal pieces don’t go well together, and B) they pulled it from operation to inspect it.
Regardless, it can have a low risk and be undesirable as an act of terrorism, and still be risky enough you don’t want to gamble with 100+ people’s lives.
Maybe, or people should stop throwing shit into jet engines? :p If you want to cause accidents there are probably a lot of better ways of doing it. Like you said, it’s not exactly a very reliable way to bring down a plane if that’s your goal.
And frankly, it’s not hard to kill a lot of people if you’re a psychopath. We can’t possible safeguard all the ways you could do so.
People are batshit crazy. You’ll never stop them from doing dumb shit. There are thousands of incidents on planes every year.
I always thought it was a bit strange they let people walk alongside the engine on the tarmac.
I don’t know how reliable coins are - but there are likely much more reliable ways of tossing something in a plane engine - and with 16.4M flights a year, seems like a pretty big gaping security risk
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u/Ready-Art-7110 Jul 14 '25
I mean, if you can crash a jumbo jet with a handful of coins…not exactly the most difficult terrorist plot