Cast Away movie with Tom Hanks PLOT PROBLEM?

Question

In this movie, a Christmas with relatives is interrupted by Chuck(Tom Hanks) being summoned to resolve a problem in Malaysia. Flying through a violent storm over the southern Pacific Ocean—and having flown off course trying to avoid the storm—Chuck's airplane crashes into the ocean, making him the only survivor among five. Chuck is able to escape the sinking plane and is saved by an inflatable life-raft but in the process, loses the raft's emergency location transmitter. He clings onto the life-raft as it floats all night in the storm before being washed up on an island.
After Chuck wakes up, stranded, he explores the island and soon discovers that it is uninhabited. Several FedEx packages from the crashed plane wash up on the shore, as well as the dead body of one of the pilots (to which he gives a funeral). Chuck initially tries to signal for rescue and makes an escape attempt with the remnants of his life-raft, but he cannot pass the powerful surf. He searches for food, water, shelter, and opens the packages. He finds a number of potentially useful items but leaves one package, painted with a pair of wings, unopened.

At the end of the movie, Chuck delivers this package to it's recipient back in the U.S.A.
So, why then, was the winged package in the cargo of a flight to Malaysia?

Thanks

Answer 1

it was the sender, he saw the image (phoenix?) as something to hold on to, to keep him going, his gratitude would be to the sender NOT the recipient

Answer 2

The plane that Chuck was on took off from Memphis, and crashed somewhere in the South Pacific. But at the end of the movie, he delivered the FedEx package he didn't open on the island to an address in Texas. While it seems odd that a package bound for Texas would be on an international flight from Memphis, the woman who lived there was actually the sender of the package and Chuck was returning it to her (hence the soundtrack playing Elvis Presley's "Return to Sender" when he's driving there). The same woman had sent a package at the beginning of the movie to her husband in St. Petersburg, Russia, with similar golden wings painted on it.

Answer 3

Cast Away Plot

Answer 4

Did you ever think it was a Package going back to the USA from Russia or wherever they took off from?

now what i didn't get was why he delivered the package to the lady and he hung on her words like it was a mid-life crisis you know

there are alot of small errors in movies that you can catch