Lucky Or What?

you decide!

for the seventh time in the last couple of years, a Chinese person has been arrested for trying to drop a handful of metal coins into an airplane engine, for good luck, on Monday morning a 66-year-old woman surnamed Wang was detained for attempting to throw six metal coins into the engine of a Tianjin Airlines plane just before take-off, in an effort to guarantee a safe trip, fortunately, the coins ended up on the ground instead of into the multi-million dollar engine, and were noticed by an airport worker before the plane’s departure, when an announcement was made, asking whoever threw the coins to come forward, Wang refused to take responsibility, but she was soon identified using surveillance footage,  

luckily, all attempts to throw coins into airplane engines failed, with the metal pieces landing on the ground, but if one such superstitious person ever managed to reach their target, the consequences could be devastating, Ouyang Jie, a professor at Civil Aviation University of China, told Asia One that if a coin reached the delicate engine core, it could cause it to stop working midair, modern airplane engines are designed to handle multiple types of foreign objects, from the debris found on airport strips, to birds or hail, but small pieces of refined metal are not on the list, in a best case scenario, they could cause damage to the engine’s fan blades, and if they actually make it into the engine, they could cause catastrophic damage, it’s for this reason that companies always delay their flights and make sure that all thrown coins are accounted for, but here is the thing, if the coins did not make it into the engine and the plane subsequently crashed, could the airline be sued by the passenger whose coins did not make it into the engine?