Also note China modernized faster than any country. China went from farming-based to post-industrial in about 30 years and population behaviours and beliefs didn't follow it at same speed. So they have more hicks with ability to damage stuff than most of Africa and Central Asia
Particularly in some areas where you might have a community whose most technological device was a tractor a few short years ago, a bunch of developers show up, throw money at them, and they've basically time-travelled into the future when they decide to use that money to go on a trip.
How did they even have access to do this? The only time I've boarded a plane without a jetway in decades was at a smallish airport (Warsaw) that had scheduling issues and we had to get bused out to a "gate" that was just a parking spot out on the apron.
Airports charge money to use the Skybridge. If you travel with cheap airlines then you'll often go to gates without bridges. It's actually amazing the things that airports charge for.
In Lisbon to board some of the planes a bus that takes you to where the plane is and then you climb up some stairs.
In London Luton you walk from the building to the plane and climb some stairs to board.
In my experience, even in Europe it will happen in low cost airports (such as Luton) or those which have too much traffic for their actual boarding facilities (the one in Lisbon which is almost in the center of the city and has by now been planned to be replaced for 4 decades, all the while tourist number have exploded to something like 10 million per year, so even with the expansion that was possible to do, there are simply not enough jetways for all flights).
Also in general little provincial, small city, "airports" (I used quotes because some amount to little more than airfields) almost never have jetways though at times are served by passenger jet planes (typically the kind of mid-size ones made by the likes of Embraer).
Did you throw a coin in the engine at Warsaw?!?!? I think you've had good luck. It's not uncommon, probably because there are a lot of smallish airports with chronic scheduling issues. It's even more common to disembark that way, though the "good luck prayer" excuse holds even less weight in that scenario, LOL.
A major Chinese airline has warned passengers not to throw coins into its planes' engines after an incident last week.
China Southern Airlines posted a five-minute video on Weibo explaining how actions like "throwing coins at the plane" can delay flights and threaten safety.
"If they pose a threat to aviation safety, they will also face varying degrees of penalties," it said in a post on the social network.
On Wednesday, March 6, the airline's domestic flight from the southern region of Hainan to the capital, Beijing, was delayed by four hours, data from Flightradar24 shows.
According to the Liberty Times, a video posted online shows a flight attendant saying that a passenger threw "three to five coins" into the Airbus A350's engine.
In 2019, Chinese airline Lucky Air sued a passenger for $21,000 for throwing two coins into a plane's engine, which he said was for good luck, per Simple Flying.
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