In an attempt to mitigate the negative PR fallout from having one of its planes explode on the tarmac seconds after the last of its passengers scrambled off it, China Airlines painted over the ruined plane's logo. [MSN]
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its standard industry practice that when an airline no longer owns a place, the logo(s) get painted over. in this case, the plane now belongs to the insurance company, so blame them, not the airline.
Is there any way that China can blame the US for this?
Standard procedure. The very first time I flew was when I was about 5, 1982 I think. It was days after a World Airways plane went into Boston Harbor. The logos were painted over, although you could see some bleed through.
Yup, standard industry practice. Even in the Sudan when a 707 is ditched in the Nile, they still drag out the paint buckets: [www.airliners.net]
Bet it was lead based paint.
Yeah, I remember this happening with a DHL plane a couple of years ago. Strange practice, though. I mean, I've never heard of painting over the logo on a crashed plane actually obscuring the name of the airline that operated it - seems like the press always knows whose plane it is anyhow, and they're not keeping any secrets.
Well. Lots of you saying it's standard practice, but I was going to say it looked like the name had been photoshopped. The right-most block of white looks white where there should be shadow.
How many times do we have to go over this? It's called "China Airlines" but it's a Taiwanese-owned and operated airline.
I remember this being done to an Eastern Airlines plane that ran off a runway & was wrecked.
That's what airlines usually do. At least here in Chile once a plane landed a few miles before the runway. Everybody went to see it after some days as it was practically 'undamaged' in the middle of a corn field. A Secretary of State was traveling in that plane, nothing happened to him. Rumor has it, the airline gave him as a souvenir, the seat where he was traveling.
@homerjay: Taiwan and China are two separate political entities.....no.
Standard practice to paint out airline logos on aircraft no longer the property of the airline. American even paints the red stripe blue when one of their birds leaves the fleet.
Oh my, how will I ever guess the airline.