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Huge spelling mistake on Cathay Pacific plane

提交時間：3年之前

(CNN) — Sometimes, a massive typo is right in front of your eyes and you can't see it. For Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific, it was between the "i"s -- on the livery of its Boeing 777-367. In a move that's had the Internet asking "WTF?" ("Where's the F?"), photos emerged Wednesday morning appearing to show a plane on the tarmac at Hong Kong airport, proudly emblazoned with the words "CATHAY PACIIC." (www.cnn.com) 更多...

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djames225 3年之前 28

Someone told Cathay Pacific to "F" off so they took it literally. At least the didn't spell it Cathay SPacific

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ken young 3年之前 0

HA HA HA....Brilliant!

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Charmaine Gooden 3年之前 1

that's a really good one :)

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Daniel Griscom 3年之前 8

I can definitely see this as an accident. Somewhere, someone typed "CATHAY PACIIC" into a program, and that's all she wrote. An enormous plotter started cutting out pieces of vinyl far too large to read as a whole, producing a stack of sections. The team applying it started at the right end so it could be aligned with the door and end of the windows, and worked backward through the name. The letters are 4' high, and the workers were within a foot or two handling the floppy material; they couldn't see more than a couple of letters at a time. Then, when done, they turned their backs and went on to their next tasks.

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eshulze 3年之前 7

Honestly...it wouldn't surprise me if this was a marketing thing.....look at how much free publicity they are getting over it...

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sparkie624 3年之前 2

Yeah... But it is not Good Publicity!

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aarondmorley 3年之前 6

It’s a painting error, it’s hardly bad publicity

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babyracer 3年之前 8

Nope, can't really call it bad publicity at all......they would have gotten an 'F' for that :P

I'll show myself out >.>

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eshulze 3年之前 1

Agree'd...any PR is good PR......especially when its for something silly like this... considering a painting issue like this has no direct link to the service or the airworthiness of the aircraft.

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sparkie624 3年之前 1

It also shows a lack of attention to Details... And that was a Pretty Big Detail.

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chalet 3年之前 1

RIGHT ON THE HEAD OF THE NAIL

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sharon bias 3年之前 13

You only had one job!!

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pagheca 3年之前 5

If it was RyanAir I would first have see it as a publicity stunt... Than just a way to save in costs and weight.

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djames225 3年之前 1

RanAir...yeah..I could see that a publicity stunt.

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bwigen 3年之前 3

Not surprised. We have had a local high school being rebuilt/remodeled for the last 3 years. Just as this school year was about to begin, it took a student to realize that the high school name on one end of the new basketball court was misspelled. Hopefully the same attention to detail isn’t being given to our new airliners as they’re being built. To quote one of my old chiefs...”Any job, big or small, do it right or not at all”.

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Ivan Cholakov 3年之前 3

It takes at least 12 people to apply and review the application of the stencils. A few people have to sign off for the acceptance of the work from the work contractor who did the job...
Not to mention the captain of the flight will perform his visual inspection prior to the flight and not notice. come on ...

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Torsten Hoff 3年之前 4

The PIC isn’t going to cancel a flight for that.

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dj horton 3年之前 1

For an acceptance? It wouldn’t be up to the PIC, it would be up to the company

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MultiComm 3年之前 4

Good point although I am certain that I don’t look at the spelling of the livery when I do my preflight. It might catch my attention or it might not.

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gil graham 3年之前 3

I saw a similar thing when I worked for a barge manufacturer. My job was to photograph the launch, and when I stood a distance away at launch time, I noticed they had painted the very large name of the owner "INGRAM" backwards - it read "MARGNI". We quickly painted over all the letters except the R which, could still be used, and launched the boat.

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scott8733 3年之前 7

Meh, I concern myself less with what's painted on the outside, compared to their world class customer service on the inside- which for any of us who have flown C/P....is in a different galactical zip code from anything the US carriers offer.

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thomas stephens 3年之前 1

U.S. carriers are too busy figuring out ways to become a profitable air carrier.

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AWAAlum 3年之前 1

From what I've been seeing lately, they're making money hand over fist.

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thomas stephens 3年之前 1

Greed is never satisfied.

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AWAAlum 3年之前 2

Capitalism, sir. It's my understanding that companies are in business to make money.

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patrick baker 3年之前 2

perhaps the paint crew leader spoke with a lisp, and delivered verbal directions to the painters, and phonetically that is what he sounded like. give it a rest..... the inside is where the real genius is expressed.

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sparkie624 3年之前 2

That is a good one... I think the Paint Shop needs a Spell Checker!

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joel wiley 3年之前 2

Clearly the paint shop automation did not include grammerly.

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Kem7 3年之前 3

Could have been worse ... as Cathay Panic.

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A F 3年之前 2

Hah Hah Hah This is soooo funny!!!

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ReverendLee 3年之前 2

"That looks great! But who are the Chefs?"

"Great googly-moogly..."

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Bing Yiu 3年之前 1

so is F off~ lol

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Martin Kandilas 3年之前 1

About 15 years ago a huge road sign at Villawood (Sydney Australia) was installed reading LIVEPROOL. It was there for months before the mistake was noticed. It was so large that a panel with just "RP" was made to cover the mistake. It's still visible if you look closely.

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william baker 3年之前 1

OOPS sorry I did that. I was just trying to get noticed by upper management. Lol Sorry folks I had to do it.

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Randy Barnard 3年之前 1

The plane told them it was wrong
Does that look right
NO

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Paul Hurford 3年之前 1

Genius!

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harshthakkar189 3年之前 1

Seriously ! :P

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ken young 3年之前 1

For the people applying the livery and their respective management, a career ender

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Cecily Pacanin 3年之前 1

Ha ha... maybe the signwriter had had a liquid lunch?...or needs more sleep?

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Cecily Pacanin 3年之前 1

OMG...now they have all this free advertising...everyone have a great weekend.

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Chris Miller 3年之前 1

for sure a marketing ploy... they just got a new agency and they're trying to prove themselves... well done

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Ichiro Sugioka 3年之前 1

Good response by CP

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harshthakkar189 3年之前 1

I think this could be a very unique ever error that has happened probably in the history of aviation :P .. Anyways, rectifications will again cost a good sum.

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djames225 3年之前 2

It depends on which eating establishment, the person who messed up, has to take the others to for the dim sum.

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Raymond St Ange 3年之前 1

ouh! That's gotta hurt...glasses please for the folks detailing the airframe!

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John Sokolsky 3年之前 1

Captain to FO: One heck of a walk-around Bob..

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alan75035 3年之前 1

Perhaps a cost savings move?

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lyn williams 3年之前 1

Did CNN do the proofing for the art as well? CNN is notorious for not being able to spell, write, or otherwise make proper use of the English language.

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dardav 3年之前 1

take the "F" off

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Ivan Cholakov 3年之前 1

marketing gimmick

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Brian Acquistapace 3年之前 1

If true, a brilliant one, at least for Cathay Pacific

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Ivan Blakely 3年之前 1

No one could give an "F"

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Mike Williams 3年之前 1

If a mistake is made like THAT what mistake was missed?

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Linda Nitzschke 3年之前 1

I'm not at all surprised after seeing the lack of excellence when it comes to so many things these days...and don't EVEN get me started on the ignorance and illiteracy one sees at social sites with the comments and even with the writing/lack of or lousy proofreading of articles put out by various news outlets.

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MultiComm 3年之前 1

It’s because people are so used to spellcheck, autocorrect and sites like grammerly that when that resource is not available they can’t write for themselves.

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jmilleratp 3年之前 0

Maybe it was a bungled attempt to honor Passaic, New Jersey? ;-)

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terry malone 3年之前 -6

Be careful. After all, this is a CNN story. May be true, may not be true. Fake News.

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Leo Aubry 3年之前 3

would you say the same of Fox ?

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terry malone 3年之前 -5

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patrick baker 3年之前 0

i am enjoying all the serious comments about this classic spoof and attention getter. We are not talking about the safety of the aircraft, the competence of the flight crews,- nothing really vital. This could be the airline's riff on the "Name Change " of International House of Pancakes into some burger shack- free publicity and manufactured outrage.

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pagheca 3年之前 0

there are a lot of very interesting studies about typos and the difficulty to find them due to our amazing capabilities to interpret reality. Experts on that will write a paper just on this.

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AWAAlum 3年之前 1

Many years ago, I worked at an advertising agency. The proofreaders had a foolproof method: 1. Read through for content and continuity 2. Read through backwards, forcing you to read on a word level.
It works beautifully.

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Faisal Nahian 3年之前 0

Could be a marketing strategy. You just never know!

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Gary Moore 3年之前 -6

Considering CNN is so full of fake news and blatant B.S., I was thinking this may be more of the same....LOL!

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BuddyCox 3年之前 -1

Would you have noticed the mistake if you wrote in Manderine?

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Richard Loven 3年之前 -1

Everything is done by computer of course. They used Pacific and the spell checker printed Paciic. Nobody caught the error.

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AWAAlum 3年之前 1

So, why would spell check pick up a correctly spelled word and misspell it?

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Steven Morley 3年之前 -1

Cathay is all out of F**ks to give.

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Nathan Cox 3年之前 -3

How do we know this isn’t a photoshop?

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sharon bias 3年之前 -8

Well, if they can't get their name spelled correctly, and no one caught it until the plane was on display, it does make one wonder how really important things, like aircraft maintenance, are handled. This was a mistake that shouldn't have left the hanger.

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Franky16 3年之前 14

So even the best of us have spelling mis-haps - I'm sure you know how to spell hangar as it relates to aircraft..

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Ivan Blakely 3年之前 3

Couldn't agree more ... even the best can include the occasional hyphen in-appropriately. :-)

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sparkie624 3年之前 3

I noticed that earlier... But didn't want to bring it out..

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aarondmorley 3年之前 4

Suppose you as an English speaker/reader worked in the aircraft engineering field.

Now you would likely perform engineering to an exceptional standard.

Now suppose you worked in decoration and were asked for example to apply the Arabic writing to an Emirates, Qatar or Etihad aircraft, or the Chinese characters to a Chinese airline or any other aircraft requiring words from a language you don’t speak, let alone read or write... The likelyhood of you making what seems an ‘obvious’ error to someone who does read those words is massively increased.

The other thing you need to understand is that a word written in any language in a four foot tall font does not look even look like that word when you are one foot away. Couple that with the fact that you’re actually looking at the word in the form of parts of a character spanned across multiple pieces of a stencil and you’ll certainly not notice the error.

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AWAAlum 3年之前 1

Makes me wonder why the stencil wouldn't be the entire word rather than individual letters. That way, no spelling problems, no language problems, no spacing problems, etc. Slap that puppy on and get to painting.

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aarondmorley 3年之前 1

Because it would be all but impossible to handle a single stencil that large! Painting masks are always arranged out of manageable sized pieces assembled into the pattern on the object. Consider the money and effort wasted if a single large sencil is stretched out of proportion or torn in application and the whole thing needs to be scrapped and cut again.

This is the first large case of a ‘typographical’ error on an aircraft witnessed in a long time, clearly the existing systems work in nearly every case.

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Torsten Hoff 3年之前 1

Well reasoned, Aaron.

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