Flight in China delayed four hours after passenger throws coins into engine

CNN Travel

By Shawn Deng, CNN

Published 10:47 AM EST, Thu March 7, 2024

A flight in China was delayed by more than four hours on Wednesday after a passenger threw coins into the engine, according to Chinese state media.

China Southern Airlines flight CZ8805 was originally scheduled to take off from the southern city of Sanya to Beijing around 10 a.m. local time on March 6, but it did not depart until around 2:16 p.m. local time, flight-tracking websites Flightradar24 and Flight Aware showed.

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