Macabre question re: Special schemes

[mirrodie]

HAs there ever been an aviation accident with plane having a special paint job?

random....

[Cary]

First one that comes to my head is the SIA Tropical Megatop.

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:frown:

[Mateo]

Taipei was Tropical Megatop. The other one was repainted very soon after.

[LGA777]

This TAM F-100 crashed in Brazil in 1996 when a thrust reverser deployed right after take off causing loss of control killing all 96 onboard and 3 on the ground, was in an Air Transport World Special Scheme.

http://www.airliners.net/photo/TAM/Fokker-100-(F-28-0100)/1047716/L/&sid=652632d691abb6ce28b9dc298c6dca76

LGA777

[AJ]

I remember shooting both SQ special color 747's at EWR, 9V-SPK is featured here, sorry for the poor quality scanned slide.

http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc414/A777J/Scan77.jpg

AJ