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Oops: Pro-Boeing ad in Seattle uses Airbus plane

The headline Wednesday read "The Future of Washington," but the photo was of an Airbus jetliner, not a Boeing.
An ad in the Seattle Times on Nov. 20, 2013 showing support for Boeing used an Airbus plane in the photo.

SEATTLE -- There was one thing wrong in a full-page ad in The Seattle Times urging state lawmakers to pass a transportation package aimed at persuading Boeing to build the new 777X in Washington.

The headline Wednesday read The Future of Washington, but the photo was of an Airbus jetliner, not a Boeing.

The ad was placed by the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, which is part of the Aerospace Partnership of business, labor and economic development groups. A Chamber spokeswoman, Terri Hiroshima, told The Seattle Times, It's an embarrassing, cringe-worthy error.

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