747 Crosswind Landing at Hong Kong's "Kai Tak" Airport has been added as a related post - related requested by kulpims.

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747 Crosswind Landing at Hong Kong's "Kai Tak" Airport has been added as a related post - related requested by kulpims.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/747-Crosswind-Landing-at-Hong-Kongs-Kai-Tak-Airport

747 Crosswind Landing at Hong Kong's "Kai Tak" Airport has been added as a related post - related requested by kulpims.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/747-Crosswind-Landing-at-Hong-Kongs-Kai-Tak-Airport

747 Crosswind Landing at Hong Kong's "Kai Tak" Airport has been added as a related post - related requested by kulpims.

Landing at Kai Tak airport was pretty cool.. it seemed that quite a bit of the final approach was below the level of the nearby apartments It was only ever the most experienced pilots who were allowed to land there, since there wasn't a lot of margin for error.

I think it's a go-kart track now, but I haven't been back since it was decommissioned as an airport.

Wow, this must be old. Kai Tak Airport closed in 98.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'crosswind, steep turn, landing, hong kong' to 'crosswind, steep turn, landing, hong kong, kai tak airport' - edited by yoghurt

I'm a pilot and I'm novoting this -- the tone is too smarmy for me. These are people falling to earth and getting maimed or killed (usually not even doing particularly Darwinesque things).

I won't give my opinion on all of the clips (unless you're really interested) but I will say that the second one appears to be a not-uncommon approach and landing on the incredibly challenging Runway 13 at the now-defunct Kai Tak airport.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Tak#Runway_13_approach

The last one, though, unlike the others, *is* a total Darwin award; the asshole Air Force pilot had a reputation for being a cowboy and had long sworn that he would manage to roll a B-52 heavy bomber before he retired. Unfortunately he took his crew with him when he augered in.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,982358-1,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Fairchild_Air_Force_Base_B-52_crash

1998 - good catch Ant, thanks.

Cost to live there? Very expensive. Almost on par with living 30 minutes from downtown New York. Kai Tak airport is 30 minutes from downtown. Now HK's new airport is about an hour away - they created an island for it.

*dupe http://www.videosift.com/video/Typical-Landing-at-Kai-Tak-International-Airport

Damn! Videosift's search engine blows chunks, then -- I though I did a search before I posted it and came up nada... oh well.

Anyway, thanks for the heads up! I guess I'll tag it as a duplicate.

In reply to this comment by lunkwill:
nice video and thanks for the plug but unfortunately someone beat you to it: http://www.videosift.com/video/Typical-Landing-at-Kai-Tak-International-Airport

nice video and thanks for the plug but unfortunately someone beat you to it: http://www.videosift.com/video/Typical-Landing-at-Kai-Tak-International-Airport