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A mountain resort in China is offering an unusual job with very good pay.
Laojun Mountain, a national 5A-level tourist attraction in Luoyang, Henan province, is recruiting a “sea of clouds observer” to stay on its summit from 16 July to 15 August, when cloud formations are at their most spectacular, The Standard (TS) reported. The selected candidate will be required to monitor daily weather changes and publish at least one short video on social media each day showcasing the natural scenery.
Applications opened last Wednesday and will close tomorrow. Applicants are required to upload original videos to the social media platform Douyin using designated hashtags, with the clips following the theme of the recruitment campaign, according to TS.
The uploader of the video receiving the most likes and meeting the other criteria will be hired and paid 60,000 yuan for the 30-day job.
Meanwhile, an airline passenger got more than a dose of clouds during his flight from the Greek city of Thessaloniki to Memmingen, Germany, on 10 July.
The Ryanair flight had been airborne for only 10 minutes when it abruptly descended 2,700 meters, and passengers heard “some kind of explosion,” the BBC reported.
A passenger window shattered in flight after being struck by debris from the jet’s engine, forcing the pilot to return to the airport.
The broken window nearly sucked out a 61-year-old Serbian national seated beside it.
“His wife held onto his legs for around five minutes to stop him from being sucked out,” Michalis Giannakos, president of the Panhellenic Federation of Public Hospital Employees, told the BBC.
Passengers said they saw the man’s head hanging out of the window as far as his shoulders before they were able to pull him back inside.
The man suffered minor friction burns and was treated at a hospital after the plane landed safely. No other passengers were injured during the emergency.