Daily Mail video grab
No its not the aircraft in question. It was repainted in Star Alliance colours over last winter, and was painted as such today when it went down.
As a former dispatcher, I dispatched many JKK flights and found the crews to be professional, and the aircraft in good condition visually (obviously I'm not an engineer or airframe expert but I know a gash airframe when I see one). Only thing that the type seemed to suffer from was the passenger door seemed to regularly look a bit tatty and ill fitting, but I guess being a plug type it all tightened up in the air.
I shot the frame itself in Madrid last year, before its repaint. It looked in good nick, no oil leaks or loads of brake dust around the gear, no Fokker 100 or CRJ stylee soot marks around the tail. May have just had a paint or a wash, though.
God rest them.
OTEA
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