Painting over company logos on accident aircraft...

[big_al]

its a PR move

 

[Motive Flow]

To limit bad publicity.

Next please.

That's pretty much the main reason.

A picture's worth a thousand words.

Even though a person may read an article about an accident, the picture may hammer it home for them.

 

[filejw]

Cause that's the way we always do it.

 

[CL600Pilot]

I'll rephrase the question. I drove by the FDX MD-10 gear collapse plane today and the fuselage was solid white. No sign of "FedEx" anywhere on the plane. We all know it was a FedEx aircraft. What's the point?

Is it possible that it is a new airplane? Or new airplane to Fedex and simply hadn't been painted yet? Generally accident repaints are to minimize bad publicity but no one is going to spend that much to paint an airplane becuase a gear collapsed......maybe they are leasing the airplane for a short time? Could be a dozen different reasons it was white.

 

[FN FAL]

Could be a dozen different reasons it was white.

Because, as much as it would probably succeed in throwing off the public, SWA would sue them if they painted it in their livery scheme? :nuts:

 

[405]

Thanks for all of the responses. It's really difficult to figure out who's plane it was with the white fuselage and big purple tail. It's Eastern! Dumb asses in Memphis would never care. They're probably trying to figure out how to steal it.

Why not paint it white and red and say it was a TWA jet? No one would know the difference. Hide it any way you can. Lie about it if you need to.

 

[Metro752]

Thanks for all of the responses. It's really difficult to figure out who's plane it was with the white fuselage and big purple tail. It's Eastern! Dumb asses in Memphis would never care. They're probably trying to figure out how to steal it.

Why not paint it white and red and say it was a TWA jet? No one would know the difference. Hide it any way you can. Lie about it if you need to.

why is this such an issue for you?

 

[Purpledog]

They should've painted the tail brown!