Does anyone know if this was the first flight after paint job? (you know where I'm going here).
Apparently not, the plane was sighted in HKG a couple of days before the crash with the new paint job according to a mechanic I ran into this weekend.
Still, I had similar thoughts after seeing this picture on Huck's post with the cockpit windows possibly masked for the paint job:
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/3...ml#post5344440