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Federico From Belgium, joined May 2005, 0 posts, RR: 0
Posted (13 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 1119 times:

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Photo © CARLOS DE LA FUENTE

Why are the titles and registration blacked out?

Federico
Argentino in Seattle

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Seriouslyfunny From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (13 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 951 times:

it was the britannia 757 that crashed recently. they are blacked out so it wont make the airline look bad....

brian

Federico From Belgium, joined May 2005, 0 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (13 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 922 times:

Really? Never seen that done before. Interesting.
Thanks for the info Seriously.

Federico
Argentino in Seattle

Phil330 From Australia, joined May 2011, 0 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (13 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 923 times:

It is true that the titles are blacked out so that passengers on other flights cannot identify the airline involved. If you're flying on a Britannia 757 after liftoff from Gerona and see a remarkably similar plane in 3 bits next to the runway it doesn't do anything for the nerves!

The registration has been blacked out because the aircraft was written off, and so the registration no longer exists.

In Guernsey last year there was an Air UK which did a similar thing off the runway and it was re-sprayed all-white to de-identify it.

Phil
A320/330 pilot.

Ovelix From Greece, joined Aug 1999, 639 posts, RR: 4
Reply 4, posted (13 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 908 times:

It is a common policy for the airlines to cover with paint the name on the fuselage and the tale logo on whatever remains after an accident. For example photos of the Air Florida 1982 crash into the Potomac river in Washington DC and the Aloha Airlines 1988 incident (the upper front part of the fuselage collapsed in flight) where the in post accident photos words and logos are covered with paint. The reason is that a logo is made to be clearly recognizable and rememberable when times are good. After the incident/accident/crash noone wants it to be rememberable to the millions of people who read or watch about the crash. In order to avoid a reputation disaster as well, it has to be eliminated.

Hope I helped...

Kostas

LONNIE From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 5, posted (13 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 884 times:

AIR CANADA DID THIS AS WELL TO THEIR RJ THAT HIT THE TREES IN EASTERN CANADA A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO.

DLMD-11 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 6, posted (13 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 886 times:

Whenever an airplane is wrecked for whatever reason, it seems that the first thing to happen to the wreck is that they black out the titles of the airline operating the airliner. The reason is that it's real bad publicity for the airline for people to see little bits of airliner sprawled over more than the 160 feet intended wingspan of a standard 757-200. It happens at every accident; Pan Am 103, Air Florida 90, Delta 191, and this one. The only accident where it didn't happen was the Aloha Airlines cabin decompression in the late 80s or early 90s in Hawaii - the decompression itself took care of that.

Federico From Belgium, joined May 2005, 0 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (13 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 872 times:

Makes sense.

Federico
Argentino in Seattle

AC183 From Canada, joined Jul 1999, 1532 posts, RR: 2
Reply 8, posted (13 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 869 times:

There is a second reason the titles are blacked out, and that is because it is no longer the airlines's airplane. After the crash, it becomes the insurance companies property.

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