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Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport (1925 - 1998) 香港啟德機場

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First of all, this is a collection from RU-vid. I would like to thank all the enthusiasts from RU-vid especially Mr. Boyd Kelly (airboyd of RU-vid) which I used their best fragments in making this special Kai Tak video. Background music from "633 Squadron" by Mr. Ron Goodwin.
Kai Tak Airport VHHH (1925 - 1998) VHHX (since 1998) "traditional Chinese: 啟德機場" was the world's busiest international airport. The growth of Hong Kong put a strain on the airport's capacity. The airport was designed to handle 24 million passengers per year but in 1996, Kai Tak had already handled 29.5 million passengers, plus 1.56 million tonnes of freight, making it the third busiest airport in the world in terms of passenger traffic, and first in terms of cargo. However extremely busy Kai Tak was located in the city center, the Kowloon City "九龍城" (The city of nine dragons "city surrounded by nine mountains"), around by high density buildings, numerous skyscrapers and rugged mountains reaching an altitude of 2000 ft. with single narrow runway (13/31) very close to taxiway jutting out into Victoria Harbour, and further less than 10 Km is Hong Kong Island, another densely populated area with hills up to 2100 ft. The only way approach to Runway 13 was a sharp 47-degree right turn before and of the same level with the checkerboard (a small hill painted with red and white checkerboard at 1:18) at about 100-meter altitude then align with the runway. Often with strong crosswinds, the airport was infamously difficult to land at. However, due to the same reasons, only experience pilots were chosen for the challenging approach and air crash incidents rarely occur.
The low altitude manoeuvre was so spectacular that crowded streets of people, multi-storey buildings, vehicles and pavements can easily be "touch". I can hear "WOW" or "My God" from passengers when they aware of the home decorations through apartment windows which is of the same level with the aircraft like flickering of televisions even children say "Hi" to them before landing. In this video, you can found the most extremely landing, but these happened several hundred times per day, and was just the real daily life of Hong Kong people.

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@terrytang5367 Год назад

So many good memories, I left Hong Kong to Toronto for school in the summer of 1985 when I was 16. My very first time taking a flight all by myself without speaking any English. My dad bought the cheapest ticket which was Taiwan Airline and I had to stop in Taipei, Japan, and San Fransico! It was over 30 hours all by myself and I didn't have a US visa at that time so I was put in an area with the surveillance of an officer during my transit. I didn't have any US dollar bill with me for the deposit of the cart for my luggage at the San Fransico airport so a girl who seat next to me on the plane lent me a dollar, and I owe her a dollar for 38 years! My English was so bad I couldn't even manage to buy batteries for my walkman at the airport! OMG it was 38 freaking years ago but it seems like yesterday! I miss Kai Tak airport!

@asianverse7313 Год назад

wow bro, you came a long long way, look at your English now, excellent!!!!!

@user-wc6jt6zj9p 9 месяцев назад

いろいろご苦労が有ったのですね。お疲れ様です。私は32年前に名古屋空港から香港啓徳空港を往復しました。ビルが林立して人が沢山居て、独特な香りがするのが香港でした。夜景やら船上レストランやらタイガーバーム園やらetc.もう一度、あの頃に戻りたいです😿

@Vpmatt 10 лет назад

For the first and only time in history, the music in an airplane video hasn't annoyed the shit out of me and actually enhances the footage. Well done.

@howardfortyfive9676 9 лет назад

Yes *absolutely and I unequivocally agree. My thoughts were early Star Wars. Does that sound about right? These pilots are NOT flying little Corvettes or Bushplanes but they are flying them as tho they were flying in the bush of Alaska Burma or Southeast Asia. I thought that great music really added to the overall film. Just WOW.*

@MrJonniconni 9 лет назад

Howard Fortyfive music from 1964 movie... 633 squadron.

@UlliStein 5 лет назад

Oh yes, sounds like a Star Wars soundtrack. Maybe the same composer?

@phillipecook3227 5 лет назад

Agree completely. Great video and great music. 633 Squadron by Ron Goodwin from the 1969 movie.

@strykerdefence1763 4 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GNItvbsQqpM.html 💪

@daved7912 2 года назад

I am a former multi engine, commercial instrument rated pilot with over 3000 hours and literally millions of miles on commercial airlines. Suffice it to say I am an aviation nut. I have flown into Kai Tak more than a dozen times on various airlines and was never not amazed and thrilled. As a pilot, the approach confused me (thought it must have been a DME Arc) but a gracious captain from United showed me the approach plate and described the bizarre checker board approach in detail. Others have commented on the skills required to fly this approach and they are spot on. I have watched this video many, many times and will continue to do so. And my point in submitting this is really just to profusely thank those made it possible for all to see.

@michelfortin7055 10 лет назад

I started flying for Cathay Pacific in 1991 so I have fond memories of this airport. An approach on the infamous runway 13 could certainly get your adrenalin pumping at times. One of the few runways in the world where a jetliner could not do an automatic final approach and landing. It was all done manually. When the wind was blowing hard across the runway, and it did so very often, it was always entertaining to watch the non-Hong Kong based airlines attempt a landing. Of course Korean Air was always a favorite to watch in these conditions, since many of their pilots were having quite a hard time dealing with the manual landing in gusty crosswind conditions, as attested by numerous RU-vid videos. The more modern airport which replaced it in 1998 at Chek Lap Kok is much more user friendly but in strong winds it can also be very interesting due to the interaction with the mountains of Lantau island.

@rjjcms1 9 лет назад

Michel Fortin Last time I was on a plane that was doing this landing/take off naughty me tried to take a photo sequence out of the plane window with my camera when we weren't supposed to. Was runway 13 the one by the Marlboro poster?

@michelfortin7055 9 лет назад

Ralph Jackson Indeed it was Ralph.

@rjjcms1 9 лет назад

Michel Fortin Thanks Michel!

@JUSTENization 5 лет назад

Salute to you Sir; and many other piloted them wide bodies landing in cross wind.

@emmataylor9298 5 лет назад

I grew up in HK and went back and forth to Boarding school - WE ARE SO GREATFUL FOR YOUR FLYING.

@Arikirikuze98 13 лет назад

I was a flight attendant with Cathay Pacific and we flew over those low-rises and laundry lines with metres to spare and i did live in a top floor flat in the flight path for 18 months. Still miss Kai Tak. One of the quickest & most efficient international airports in the world in its time.

@maruhantv7942 4 года назад

Korea airline landing golden medal⚜

@Psa182. 3 года назад

Yes!

@Psa182. 3 года назад

Korean air is legend landing of hongkong kaitak airport!

@ARedMotorcycle 3 года назад

It's called experience.

@user-ux8nf6mk5h 3 года назад

@shanestuart-ramirez429 3 года назад

I second that! Wow

@mariusnesser2205 10 лет назад

For a couple of years in the '80s, I lived in HK in the Kowloon area where the planes would roar overhead on approach to Kai Tak. It was spectacular to say the least. I once had the privilege of being in a cockpit on approach to Kai Tak - unforgettable! Thanks for the memories, bigeyedchicken, and of course, good ol' Kai Tak.

@shoelessal1786 3 года назад

Thank you for this!! I was born and raised in HK, departed, and landed in Kai Tak many times when I was younger. I will always remember the hard right turn before landing, knowing it's about to touch down at my highest emotion. The downslope exit after immigration when you enter HK inside the terminal was also unforgettable, the moment when always hundreds of people waiting for their pickup and they all look upright at you while you're trying very hard to find your own pickup. My most fond memories were the rides going to Kai Tak and inside the terminal, the sad times when leaving, and the happy times when return - mom and dad will always be there. I will always love HK, but I missed the good old days more...

@bluejasmine8690 2 года назад

Yess..those pick up persons often seen in HK 's movies, so that when I was there in 1997 & saw them ...is one of a good old memory 😁

@terrytang5367 9 месяцев назад

Oh the smell right after landing on the Kai Tak airport. How can I forget that!

@TheAviationEnthusiast 8 лет назад

When I think of Kai Tak I think of two things. 747s and Hong Kong...man I miss that airport

@Lee247Jamaica 3 года назад

I think 747s a330s cathey pacific runway13 and hong kong

@pamelahugh4 10 лет назад

Thanks for doing this. It's very special to all who loved HK.

@kenross4256 10 лет назад

One of my favorite videos on RU-vid!

@limolee007 9 лет назад

Mate of mine was invited to sit in with crew on landing at this airport in mid nineties and for him he said it was the biggest thrill of his life. The angle of decent over city and last minute rotations made him feel any pilot doing this would have to be awesome!

@eltfell 10 лет назад

Usually, I am totally against background music in aviation videos, but this is utterly great!

@neilfoster814 Год назад

Imagine looking out of your hotel window DOWN onto a 747 going past at 200mph! Love the "633 Squadron" theme music. Great video!

@keolumike 4 года назад

It was 1955 my family flew from SEA on a Northwest Constellation with sleeping berths. From Narita via Naha in Okinawa and Taipei we arrived over Hong Kong in a DC-7. I was ten and this was my first airplane trip. I felt we were so close to the walls ringing the harbor and runway that now, 60 years later it was the most exciting passenger flight I had ever been on.

@dansmusic4579 5 лет назад

I flew 747-400 planes into Kai Tak many times from 1991-1996. The IGS to Runway 13 was a bit of a challenge to those who had not done it before, but after about 10 or 20 landings there, one gets to figure out just what is needed and how to handle it well. The Cathay Pacific pilots had it nailed -- they were really good, as this was their home base. All those bad landings you see in the video are primarily due to sloppy planning and/or overshooting the turn to final. If there is a cross wind from the right (common-- you see it in almost all the 'sideways' landings in the videos), you CANNOT turn late -- you must start the right turn to final exactly as published or even a wee bit before. Otherwise, you'll end up in more than 30 degrees bank (saw that in the video) to correct back to course on final And there is only a very short time to make the corrections! Another big mistake was the pilots who level off a bit as they make that turn -- you MUST continue the rate of descent you had on the IGS (about 800 to 900 feet per minute usually) in that turn, or you'll end up high on short final -- time for a steep dive and hope you don't pick up a bunch of speed you didn't need! BTW, no one mentioned the famous red and white 'checkerboard' on the side of the mountain --- that is the 'aiming point' on the IGS portion of the approach -- aim for the checkerboard, then.... turn right about 80 degrees (? forgot the exact turn required) and 'land over there!' Yes, I miss the fun of landings at Kai Tak. Chep Lap Kok is a boring approach and landing, unless a typhoon is in progress! The good thing is they quickly built a freeway highway and fast rail train route to Kowloon and then to HK island from Lantau just before the new airport opened up. Sorry to be so long winded here!

@minseok2432 4 года назад

대한항공 기장님..대박..

@Minseok_Ko 4 года назад

이제는 볼 수 없는 전설의 카이탁 렌딩...

@konaru413 4 года назад

어떻게 저렇게 착륙하는지 대단하시네...

@puipui2390 4 года назад

@@konaru413 실제로

@phamhannism 4 года назад

유튜브 알고리즘으로 모이게 된 한국인

@flyingdutchman_NL 4 года назад

Nou eerlijk gezegd ben ik het niet eens met wat je hier zegt. Ik begrijp namelijk totaal niet wat je bedoelt.

@leungstone5287 3 года назад

My dad used to living in Kowloon City so it was very close to the airport. Everyday aeroplanes would just fly above his head. The buildings there were short to prevent collision of the aeroplane with bridges or buildings. Because of the abundance of mountains in Hog Kong there were a hill painted with checker marks. Whenever the pilot saw the pattern they will do a very sharp turn and land on the airport. The aeroplane were flying so low that sometimes it was just 50 meters up in the air so the engine force of the aeroplane can be physically felt on the ground. Sadly the government decided to build a new airport at the Lantau Island and therefore after serving for 70+ years the old airport was finally retired. In WW2 the Japanese bombed this airport to prevent RAF fighters getting airborne. After that the Japanese mined the stone in a 700+ years site an expanded the airport. This airport is truly fascinating and even though I wasn't born until the 21 century I will always remember this airport in my heart.

@yonderosa 10 лет назад

Flew in and out of Kai Tak scores of times starting in the mid 80's..."Kai Tak Heart Attack" is a good one Andrew. I also saw clotheslines and on one approach saw an elderly woman sitting at her small table with teapot and cup easily visible. I was always a passenger on some version of 747 with several airlines and my hats off to all the pilots that negotiated that approach. Never, not once did I feel the crew was anything but spot on in their landings....and the crosswinds could be wicked fun as the videos show. I feel blessed to have flown in and out as many times as I did.....and a window seat was a must!

@gregmiley67 11 лет назад

Great collection of clips. I flew this route many times and each and every time it was a heart beat in my throat. It was nice to wave at high rise residents as we floated below their highest floors and made our final course corrections. Gears down, nose up, hang on

@user-ch1se6bv1o 2 года назад

Giving my full respect to all the pilots!

@biu9837 5 лет назад

Those pilots entered the plane as boys but left after the Kai Tak landing as men 😂

@britoca 15 лет назад

I remember seeing the upturned wingtip of the 747-400 over the people having dinner in their living rooms, watching TV, it was that close. Landed there countless times. Awesome.

@yiuyeungkan157 8 лет назад

RIP Kai Tak 1925-1998 You will be missed

@wellohmeeeeeee 14 лет назад

I remember landing in a 747 at Hong Kong Kai Tak on a beautiful golden light sun setting evening in 1987. It was quite surreal with all the buildings lights so close, an amazing experience!

@MingWLee 4 года назад

I was born and live in Kowloon City where the district right next to Kai Tak Airport. Whenever there was a plane fly across, it was so loud that even you are screaming right next to your friend, your friend still cannot hear what you say. Btw, @2:39 the second building on the right was my home, it is amazing to see footage of my old home town.

@froilanmariedia7293 Год назад

Wres the school

@YodaOnDMT 9 лет назад

They should have kept this airport open by all accounts just so pilots and passengers could have this unique experience. It must be the equivalent of racing at the classic F1 circuits which are "not up to standard" but so much more fun than the crop of boring, sanitised circuits they mostly go to now.

@RodrigoMontemezzoBR 9 лет назад

in F1 circuits, safety comes first. imagine in an airport!

@kimjongun3149 9 лет назад

In my opinion, it should have stayed for Regional Aircrafts.

@Ultranationalist941 9 лет назад

Kim Jong un Come on Kim! Build one just like this right smack in the middle of Pyong Yang!

@taehyunniee 9 лет назад

I love in Hong Kong and the reason why the shut it down cuz it was noise for ppl to sleep so the move it but they change the old air port to a ship port

@YodaOnDMT 8 лет назад

TobyManIsHere I can imagine it being slightly awkward for locals to be honest...a plane flying past your toilet window whilst you're on "the throne" might be a tad disconcerting. Great for the rest of us to watch, or even better, experience.

@rjslade 14 лет назад

I love the new airport, but I sure regret never getting the chance to visit Kai Tak and the surrounding area for some spotting. Absolutely incredible! Great video! THank you for posting.

@EEED8888 3 года назад

My first time. Landing at kaitak. I see cloth line next side my wing.

@noodleseasutter4093 4 года назад

0:59 Normal Ryanair Landing...

@tlabadiebutnot3405 4 года назад

bUtTeR lAnDiNg 100/5

@TheOndrayTV 12 лет назад

My dad used to work in Air France flying the B777-200 Classic. He's now working in Hong Kong Airline as a senior captain and he told me that if he could ever had a chance to fly into kai tak again, he'd definitely do it.

@lalapotatopotato 14 лет назад

I am proud of being able to live in Hong Kong and have the experience of taking the flights from Kai Tak and seeing the views of the flats nearby. Thanks a lot for your great work and edition here to share with the global villagers!!!!!

@TheJacky19950105 9 лет назад

My mon used to have 2 working trips a week. When every time we talked about the past, she said it was a life experience to land or take off from kai tak. I can't imagine the airport was 15 mins of driving away from where i grow up. And there is a way to know if the pilot suck "If u see the Marlboro logo is about your eye level when landing, thats a perfect landing. If u found it's way under your feet, grab a plastic bag and get ready to throw up!" HAHA

@vincentc1194 8 лет назад

+shu fai ma the pilots dont suck when they fly into kai tak, there are severe windshears at the airport, landing the plane itself proves the pilot to be good

@vincentc1194 8 лет назад

Rancher Sam my toilet is white if you know what i mean

@vincentc1194 8 лет назад

Rancher Sam you have issues, chinese are yellow not white

@vincentc1194 8 лет назад

Rancher Sam in your town? you mean in your pathetic crappy ranch?

@hectorsoy 10 лет назад

I loved landing at Kai Tak!! I miss it so much!! Best landing experience of all time! It's such a shame we can no longer experience this!

@pwo128 11 лет назад

What a fabulous approach that was - Kai Tak will always be a great memory of mine of Honkers in the 90s. Watching such huge aircraft make such steep turns at low altitude was breathtaking! But it was a disaster waiting to happen and I'm surprised nobody parked a B744 in Kowloon. The move to Chep Lap Kok was a prudent one.

@maddie107 14 лет назад

God bless Kai Tak, I remember as a kid watching them land from the peak, and watching the Cathay Pacific planes practicing the landing by going round in circles, touching the runway then taking off again. Also, my brother's secondary school was on the flight path and school assemblies and plays would pause due to planes flying loudly overhead. New one doesn't compare.

@thcorp1 3 года назад

i used to stop by this airport from DXB to Incheon when there was no direct flights.i still remember the rough landings of cathays.smoking and ashtrays were allowed. Loved the hospitality of the cathay stewardess who gave me toys and game cards, and thanks to all the pilots who flew them to get me to where i could get❤

@dansolo6417 5 лет назад

Loved the approach when going into the airport and the lights when leaving the airport at night, miss it loads.

@zimondye 12 лет назад

My Dad was an RAF pilot who flew Dakotas from Kai Tak immediately after the end of WW2. My own experience of landing there as a commercial passenger was the immense feeling of relief at the end of the rollout and the thought "I'm alive"!

@Scousefire 3 года назад

1:12 onwards for a few seconds, the music, the views, the retro window wipers = goosebumps!

@user-kohakuchandesu 2 года назад

20年前に、香港🇭🇰に行きました。大好きな街。いつの日か、また行ける日が来ますように。

@robertk2007 2 года назад

No autopilot landings here

@Raditram 6 лет назад

can't believe this video is 10 years old! I grew up watching this video, the music really enhanced the experience.

@DearSybersue 14 лет назад

I used to fly there all the time as a flight attendant and it was always a thrill landing there! Sitting at door three on the 747 you could see the firemen playing basketball and people's clothes drying outside their balconies! Great video, thanks for the memories...lol

@rockape252 8 лет назад

Hi, I first flew into Kai Tak in Mid 1968 in an RAF C130 Hercules. Then was invited with some of my mates to be passengers on a visiting RAF Comet so the pilots could get their Night Landing certificate doing touch and go around, that was bloody great :) My last landing was in 1982 and final take off was in 1985. How I miss Hong Kong and runway 13 :)

@Stephen-Steven-Stephens 5 лет назад

I have vague memories of a Hercybird going in the water at takeoff once.... aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19940923-0 My best trip in one though was Brize to Gander, to Nassau, to Belize..I broke into a Field Ambulance and kipped for the first leg but it was so long ago I have forgotten how far we took in that particular plane..

@RuiPlaneSpotter 3 года назад

I really liked the video!

@yeahmilksucks 9 лет назад

Several landings at Kai Tak in the 90;s ....Super Cool!!!!!! Miss that Airport!

@lapdogs 11 лет назад

Incredible that "only one" jet ended up in the water. Amazing landings by the pilots!!

@realhelathylifestyle 6 лет назад

Passenger self talk during approach. Oh look, Hong Kong, wow, all those high rise buildings. Getting close, really close... Hold on WTF. why so close. I can see knickers and tshirts on the clothes lines.. Wait, thats the runway. AT NINETY DEGREES TO US. NOOOO. Whats going on. Jesus, why is he dropping the wing, he's going to hit those apartments. Christ, he's coming around so slowly... now there is a motorway flyover... Ahhh we just crossed the fence... BUT WE ARE NOT straight... oh there's the runway... AND WE ARE STILL SIX STORIES HIGH... down plane, down, down... OH NO, we are half way down the runway, still not landed... THUMP, landed. Breathe. Release handrest from deathgrip.

@jackiebayliss 5 лет назад

Lol...💯

@emmataylor9298 5 лет назад

Exactly my experience - haaaa

@sparra3819 5 лет назад

I think I'll pass on this destination.. omg lol

@mathieuclement8011 4 года назад

this is both hilarious and sadly, accurate.

@adamp.3739 4 года назад

@@mathieuclement8011 One could easily chuck a grenade at one of these aircraft, they were so low!

@brettney72 6 лет назад

Kai Tak best airport in the world for airlines crew so much fun

@velvethammerproducti 12 лет назад

Flew into Kai Tak 1996. Could look into people's living rooms just off the wingtips. Truly amazing.

@hugienoolew 14 лет назад

Best Kai Tak video I've seen! great music from 633 squadron! I have fond memories of flying in to Kai Tak! The seats on the right hand side of the aircraft , behind the wing were the best!

@hectorsoy 12 лет назад

I miss the old airport. And I first landed there at night!! Great stuff!

@shesathome Год назад

I had immense pleasure of visiting Hong Kong in May, 1998 just months before Kai Tak was shut. Frightening and exciting experience! I was doubtful when they said that all costly navigational equipment will be moved from Kai to Lap Kok in 12 hour operation. And they did it! Wow to Chinese!

@Neocelt146 14 лет назад

Brilliant! Kai Tak was special, and flying into or out of Honkers was an experience like no other major airport in the world. I remember seeing people on their balconies overlooking Happy Valley as the stretch DC8 I was on jockeyed for landing position. The thrill of looking out your window just before landing and being almost level with the junks on "Fragrant Harbour" was very special.

@warminator1091 14 лет назад

Kai Tak, a legend. A 90° turn on final, flying over dense buildings, crosswinds and a single runway that was quite short.

@alexysgregorys2873 11 месяцев назад

the best show on earth

@lesguito 15 лет назад

0:45 what a damn good pilot to turn the plane that way !

@AccordGTR 14 лет назад

I flew to Kai Tek from 9 years old till my Honeymoon. I love it and HK, the Las Vegas of the East. All great memories.

@BaystoneBridge 8 лет назад

One of the tricky things was that from the left hand seat the moment you began the right turn from the IGS you lost sight of the runway due to the cut off angle of the right hand windscreen this lasted until you rolled the wings level.

@realhelathylifestyle 6 лет назад

my knuckles should have been even whiter then.

@jamesbrown-gg7dd 8 лет назад

landing at kai tak was the best thing since my girlfriend invited ma to dinner and I stayed for breakfast

@cfcsteve86 8 лет назад

+james brown dont pretend like you have a girlfriend, unless youre referring to your hand

@mpaine 5 лет назад

Cool story bro

@ARedMotorcycle 3 года назад

@@cfcsteve86 Wow, so edgy. Don't confuse your own teenage dry spell with somebody else's life. Quit projecting. It's not that hard to get a girlfriend.

@WaterShowsProd 14 лет назад

Perfect music choice. The piloting into Kai Tak was excellent. Even with those landings, the actual touchdowns were smooth.

@NobbyBinks 14 лет назад

Lol, I used to work in Kowloon Tong in the late 90's. My eardrums would almost pop every time I went on my lunch break

@christynelaw1362 Год назад

I lived in hong kong and landed many times at Kai tak airport if you visited Kowloon city you would me amazed at how close the planes were to the top of the buildings my first there i thought that the plane was going to hit the buildings so scary

@mandrake127 13 лет назад

Spectacular and perfect matching of the 633 squadron music. :o)

@nitrosun07 15 лет назад

This is one of the greatest collective memories for Hong Kong people. I really miss you Kai Tak, for all those beautiful childhood dreams and memories.

@kenlee-97 3 года назад

Waaa..., why no likes for this comment in 11 years, great comment sir.

@teresavirina7735 4 года назад

Wow, just read Kai Tak raiport was used for 72 years. From what I heard from pilots as a retired cabin crew, Kai Tak was one of the most difficult. During approach to landing the pilots guide to runway was a big "red & white" painted sign on a mountain, & on a certain distance, the pilots have to make a sharp right turn to see the the runway. I never forgot landing at this airport during near touchdown, one see's low rise condos left & right. Glad hongkong build a more friendly although I will never forget Kai tsk ! Happy was part of that airport during takeoff & landing !!

@LeAOWAviation Год назад

In 1995, my mum went on Royal Nepal Airlines 757 to Kai Tak Airport, so sad we could not fly there anymore 😢

@froilanmariedia7293 Год назад

Yeah I know 😭😭

@ghostrider-be9ek 2 года назад

This was an airport were boys became men - landing a 747 there in a stiff xwind, is about as shit hot as it gets in terms of piloting prowess.

@mickavellian 12 лет назад

That good bye was touching ... got me teary eyed , and the music was PERFECT cause that was the feeling you had landing there . "I am about to live some REALLY important moment in my life!" Thank you Hong Kong, literally a thrill a second from arrival to departure"

@andyw248 15 лет назад

Wow, that's a stunning compilation! I love watching airboyd's videos, but this redux version is really something that even my non-flying friends appreciate.

@ajhiflyer 9 лет назад

The first time I landed here was in 1976, sitting behind the captain on a meal cannister(health and safety didn't seem to matter so much then). That was on a VC10(RAF) but subsequently on DC10s and 747s with British Caledonian and British Airways. It was always a thrill!

@sitdownleung6657 Год назад

Proud of Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport

@crystallicudine6845 3 года назад

My employer just tell a story about this awhile back when she show me the newly build buildings on the road side which is she said it's previously Kai Tak airport, and ask me to search it in the internet, and now i was amaze how good the pilots way back then,how they manage to landing in this aieport. Just wow

@kenlee-97 3 года назад

Hi , I was in H.K about 2 years ago ,and I see the buildings you are referring to. They weren't in construction yet over 2 years ago , but were about to start building the foundations for your work buildings at the time , that all used to be just grass for emergency landings where an aircraft would have to land before the runway would start.

@deelite19 14 лет назад

this is SURREAL!!!! one of my biggest regrets as a world traveler... i never had the chance to fly into HK when Kai Tak was still in use!

@agentiki 2 года назад

I have NOT forgotten!

@gasaholic47 10 лет назад

They would fly so low among the residential buildings, I can imagine this conversation in the cockpit: PIC: Turning right on final... Co-pilot: Ooohh...you should see these two getting it on in that apartment! PIC: Oh, wow.... (Alarm sounds) PULL UP! PULL UP!! ;-)

@mathieuclement8011 4 года назад

I think for this approach the pull up alarm is replaced by "May the Force Be With You", "the electronics of this plane give up, you are too insane for us"

@garyberryable 3 года назад

Landing at Kai Tak Airport was the highlight of a polite's dream.

@damphotos 13 лет назад

Awesome! Many years ago, my Mother 'warned' me about the landing at the old Hong Kong airport, and just like everybody else who heard the stories, I didn't believe it! And then of course, like everyone else, I saw it for myself. And finally I believed! And it was gob-smacking amazing. A free roller-coaster ride... And I lurved it! :o) You could almost read the teletext on peoples' TV screens as you went past. It was amazing. The new airport is wonderful, but RIP Kai Tak... sniff! :o(

@thsehddnr 3 года назад

The landing scene of Korean Air is the best in the world at any time.

@jgharston 2 года назад

Miss you Kai Tak. I used to live right under the flight path.

@Hughes17 Год назад

wow, that sounds like an experience. and loud, hah.

@froilanmariedia7293 Год назад

What hardcore?!

@Haztagz 14 лет назад

aah..11 years on but Kai-Tak remains on my head like it was juz yesterday .. still remember the news when they announced the closure of Kai-Tak and the opening of Chep Lap Kok with the anticipated arrival of CX889 frm JFK

@chikinnie29 5 лет назад

2:34 My grandparents used to live in one of those flats on the left. I always loved to look out of the window where the planes were just at my eye level when landing. Good and lucky old days of Hong Kong

@skeeleraar 15 лет назад

wish id had the chance to see this with my own eyes :( thanks for posting this amazing collection

@kenlee-97 3 года назад

If you're in H.K. after this COVID crap, then have a visit of the old airport, it's now a cruise ship terminal.

@GoodVideos4 7 лет назад

I was in Hong Kong in 1996. Yeah, the dramatic landing at Kai Tak Airport was a good introduction to the Hong Kong Beat. When the plane was coming down to land, look out the window at the ground, and the shoddy and packed apartment blocks get closer and closer, and your eyes get bigger and bigger. And then suddenly, they disappear and one sees grass, and then the runway. Looking sideways out the window, would see the ocean nearby.

@GoodVideos4 7 лет назад

Oh well, Kai Tak Airport must remain in flight simulators (if not already). It's good training for pilots, a good challenge. And, as a souvenir of it.

@thedreamliner2012 12 лет назад

My uncle flew L1011s & DC10s. He has 48 landings at Kai Tak. He says he can remember all 48 of them with perfect clarity, and that the other thousand or so at other airports just kind of blend together and they were like driving to the corner market to get a gallon of milk compared to landing at Kai Tak. His first landing cost the company 3 tires! That had just been put on a week earlier. After that he knew what to do and what not to do.

@tomlee1176 5 лет назад

I am from Hong Kong. Those giant planes flew right above my head every day when I was a kid.

@user-wj4ks8dk7k 2 года назад

懐かしいです！

@mehmetokay7073 2 года назад

The Alitalia MD-11 is nice.

@reiny6474 14 лет назад

its amazing that not one plane crashed into the buildings shows how much skill the pilots had

@rext8949 5 лет назад

The city which grew up around the airport; and that too how, with skyscrapers and all. The approach leaves everything to the fervid imagination, the touchdown and brutal hard rudder to align the 300 ton machine is sufficient to permanently lodge the stomach in the troat. Not for the faint of heart, only for the bravehearts! Salute the crew who landed here in all types of weather.

@twinsonic 11 лет назад

Awesome memories, thanks a lot!!

@tarquinbullocks1703 Год назад

Kai Tak. Man, those were the days...best fun landings ever.

@49metal 13 лет назад

This video is one of the wonders of RU-vid. Great work and thanks!

@LoosMoose 14 лет назад

Best video on the whole site, this was a real test of your skills particularly when the winds were up coming off the harbor. It's gone now, probably a good thing, I remember my first approach here on 13 and always will.

@PerMoenCaptain 10 лет назад

I remembrer a yellow t-shirt on a balcony and seeing people inside watching tv.

@Arlenamorim 8 месяцев назад

best location to plane spotting

@WinstonHF 13 лет назад

Although it was too close & lowest flying upon a residential area. But it was safe every day during the use of Kai Tak Airport, no mishap happened even once !! I thank you to this clip's creator, he inserted the exciting music into this clip & making a best effect !!