Schrodinger's-
As I remember the aircraft was painted with the Mandarin Airlines livery, making them part and parcel of CAL.
More generally,
I was living on Lantau Island, HK at the time and remember that night vividly. As I recall, the aircraft came to rest a few meters from the airport fire station in the pouring rain, no small factor in the high survival rate.
The recent public release of the crash video has, predictably, made rather lurid headlines in HK. One thing it has done is expose a whole host of flaws in the HKCAD's accident investigation. As far as I can tell, it seems there's been four years of finger pointing going on between the HK government and CAL, both of whom seemed quite happy to hang the unfortunate Captain out to dry.
Sadly, I can't provide any links here, but those of you with access to the SCMP can easily read the archived files, from Sept 28th of this year (I think).
cheers