Cathay Pacific plane gets new paint job with spelling mistake

If you’ve ever been refused boarding to a flight because your name was spelled wrong on the ticket, you might take comfort from this fairly glaring error on the side of a Cathay Pacific plane. Or should that be “Cathay Paciic”? On Wednesday, photos emerged of a plane for the Hong Kong carrier, with its distinctive green livery missing an “F”. Taking the fuselage foul-up with good grace, Cathay Pacific posted on its Facebook page: “Oops this special livery won’t last long! She’s going back to the shop!” Shown the typo, an engineer for Haeco, a sister company of the airline, was baffled by how such a mistake could have happened. The error was likely to be expensive, costing several thousand dollars to fix. It was unclear whether a Cathay Pacific engineer or someone from Haeco was to blame.<br/>