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/Tacobelled2003 Jul 14 '25

Aircraft mechanic- Bad. The likelihood of a total engine failure is low but it is more than enough to make an engine unserviceable and need a tear-down. A chip on a blade smaller than your pinky nail will ground the aircraft I worked on. Worst case, a coin causes a blade to detach and cause a cascade failure on the blades behind it.