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Thai Airline skids off Runway... Black paint

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  1. Tcar

    Tcar F1 Rookie

    Looks like the crane with the Black paint-over arrived before the engines cooled...

    They say it's a 'Star Alliance' thing...


    When I first saw the pic, I thought it was a huge gash in the body.


    Thai Airways skids off runway; 14 passengers hurt
     
  2. Gatorrari

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    I always wondered why airlines did that - paint out the airline's name. It is quite obvious to just about everyone who the airline is, so all they're doing is wasting money with the need to repaint the name and logo.

    It was interesting that Asiana did not do that after the SFO accident.
     
  3. Tcar

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    Yes, that is interesting... Asiana IS in the Star Alliance... Thai is saying that the Star Alliance requires them to paint out the name.

    I think there are 25-30 airlines, plus regionals in the alliance.
     
  4. Aedo

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    Muppets... should have used white paint ;)

    Pilot friend flying with a small charter airline told me they had a couple of cans of white spray paint in the cockpit with instructions to paint over the tail number and logo in the event of an off runway excursion. The reason was that the first photos would end up on the front page of many papers and on TV (pre-internet). Although everyone would know who they were from the immediate news stories the link to their name would fade faster if it wasn't "in print" so to speak. Makes sense.

    The Air France 747 that ran off the runway at Tahiti in the early 90's had the logo's and tail sprayed white while it sat on the tarmac being repaired (was there for many months)

    Too much damage I suspect.
     
  5. tazandjan

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    Star Alliance says they have no such requirement so it was Thai's idea alone.
     
  6. RacerX_GTO

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    I see opportunity here.

    A thin applicable LED coating for jet aircraft that displays fixed, one design only logos. Crash the plane, turn the logos off.

    :D
     
  7. Tcar

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    Ahhh, yes, Mr. Poom-on has changed his story... it's Thai's black paint the story now says...
     
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  9. rcallahan

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    They should have painted over the name and painted "Delta"!
     
  10. Tcar

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    #10 Tcar, Sep 13, 2013
    Last edited: Sep 13, 2013

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