Posted on 09/25/2016 2:05:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Chinese couple who missed the last boarding call for their flight ran onto the tarmac in an attempt to stop the plane from leaving without them.
The couple had arrived at their gate at Beijing International Airport after it had closed, and reportedly forced their way onto the runway with their luggage as the plane was taxiing.
The flight from Beijing to Shanghai was delayed by 20 minutes as the couple continued to block the runway, with photos showing the woman at one point squatting down underneath the plane. She reportedly attempted to persuade officials to allow her and her husband to board the plane.
“When two police officers tried to approach the woman she got really emotional and started crying and waving her arms,” one person who witnessed the events told Beijing Youth Daily.
The couple were eventually removed from the runway by police. China Daily reports the couple had claimed they missed the boarding time because it had not been communicated to them.
The boarding time was discovered to have been printed on their tickets and broadcasted throughout the airport, however.
They were detained for five days for their actions by the airport police, and face a £50 fine, according to The Times.
I’d say they were really anxious to leave, which cost them an even longer delay. What’s that saying, haste makes waste?
I didn’t know Chinese had red hair - is this common??
Assuming the rice making position comes naturally.
Lucky they didn’t get sucked into the jet engine. What a dumb thing to do, like the plane was just going to stop and let them on?
Or cause the plane(s) to crash. I am surprised the Chinese police didn’t shoot her and her husband.
That is a terrible thing to say.
Ok... let's just think about what delay would have occurred if this had been say JFK or O'Hare....
What is missing from the article is the reason they were going on that flight. While certainly a dumb thing to do, I wonder what made her so desperate to be on that plane. Until you have walked in another’s shoes you cannot understand what motivates them.
Is a Chinese redneck ... an orangeneck?
Cue Yakkity Sax.
This is how the Chinese people, ALL of them treat everything around them - like it’s their personal property and no one is more important than they.
I recall the argument with a Chinese family at a deli who only wanted half of a lobster. The people physically ejected them from the line.
Regardless of their situation, it was a dumb thing to do. They are lucky one or both of them weren’t sucked into a jet engine, run down or even shot as another poster suggested, this being China after all.
Young girls like to do that in America too.
Just yesterday, I saw a girl with Debbie Wasserman Schultz type curls, all in a BRIGHT Turquoise blue. She was serving coffee in Starbucks. Yes, it was hideous, but do you think I’m going to say anything about it? Hell no.
The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.
(I think I just broke my spell checker.)
You have to see at any Chinese airport, how they run when Gates open.
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.... and I agree with you. My point is that sometimes desperate circumstances result in desperate actions, this being China after all.
I happen to like Turquoise...what is hideous to one person is beautiful to another. I am more bothered by the quality of the brew then the fashion of a barista, but I suppose we all have different priorities.
I thought she was wearing a scarf.
Nevertheless, I think it is fairly common among Asians to change their hair color, since most of them naturally have dark brown or black hair. During my visit to Seoul, I have seen many people sporting lighter colored hair.
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