Hong Kong - Kai Tak airport closes

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(5 Jul 1998) T/I: 11:03:04
The last plane flew out of Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport in the bustling heart of the Kowloon peninsula late on Sunday (5/7), ending more than 70 years of aviation history. Cathay Pacific flight CX251, bound for London's Heathrow airport, was the last plane to leave Kai Tak, which is being closed down. A lights-out ceremony was planned for 1:00 a.m. on Monday (1700 GMT Sunday) at Kai Tak, where a huge logistics operation was already moving tonnes of equipment to Hong Kong's new
state-of-the-art airport on the outlying island of Chek Lap Kok.
SHOWS:
KAI TAK AIRPORT, HONG KONG, 5/7
Airport staff dancing and cheering;
SOT worker (english): "Bye Bye Kai Tak";
VS convoy of lorries leaving airport with equipment;
WS exterior airport;
Cathay Pacific plane taking off - last flight to leave airport;
VS Dragonair plane landing - last flight to arrive;
Convoy of lorries en route to Chek Lap Kok airport;
CHEK LAP KOK AIRPORT, HONG KONG, 5/7
Equipment being unloaded at new terminal;
Cleaners washing sidewalk;
painters putting final touches to exterior;
Vs interiors new terminal as final preparations made for Monday's opening;
KAI TAK AIRPORT, HONG KONG, 5/7
Airport official SOT (English): "The last passenger has arrived the last flight has departed, the runway is quiet - it is now time to turn the lights out that have safely guided thousand of planes...Goodbye Kai Tak and thank-you"; clapping;
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@canto_v12 4 года назад

This is probably the most sorely missed airport in the world, for reasons actually quite removed from aviation. We all know the famously thrilling approach path. But it brings so much nostalgia because it's the last widely used piece of colonial-era infrastructure to pass away into history. Its closure was originally planned ahead of the 1997 handover, a pivotal moment in Hong Kong's history. In a somewhat twisted way, the delay in CLK's opening allowed Hong Kong locals to have a slow, year-long farewell to the colonial era by using Kai Tak to fly or do planespotting for another full year.

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in the US State of Texas may not have possessed hilly mountainous terrain and dramatic landing 🛬 approaches and (in the opposite direction) the dramatic takeoffs 🛫 and 47-degree angle 📐 turns that skim only a few feet above the rooftops of high-rise buildings that Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport possessed, but Kai Tak Airport’s US counterpart in the State of Texas- Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport- which had the same fate as Kai Tak Airport the following year in 1999, is another sorely missed airport that holds a special place in the hearts and minds of many Austinites, in many Texans’ hearts and minds, just as Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport holds a special place in the hearts and minds of many Hong Kongers and millions of people around the world.

@canto_v12 4 месяца назад

@@lizzie9300 Just read up on that. They saved the Mueller control tower! It certainly looked more remarkable than Kai Tak's, but Kai Tak instead preserved a small section of the old runway as a part of a new park. Thanks for sharing.

@airodyssey 2 года назад

2:50 "Goodbye Kai Tak, and thank you." When we moved to a new city, that line inspired me to say goodbye to our first house just before leaving and locking the door for the last time: "Goodbye House, and thank you".

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

At Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in Austin, Texas, USA 🇺🇸, only eight months after the events in this video took place at its Chinese counterpart Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport’s air-traffic control tower, there was a similar party at Austin’s Robert Mueller Municipal Airport’s air-traffic control tower, and, just as happened at Hong Kong Kai Tak’s control tower that night in July 1998, upon dimming out the lights at Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport, ten 🔟 months later one night in May 1999, the exact same thing happened at Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport, and the same final goodbye words were uttered by the ATC manager at Austin-Mueller’s control tower that night in May 1999- just ten 🔟 months after it happened at Hong Kong Kai Tak’s control tower: “Goodbye, Robert Mueller Airport, and thank you.” 😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

@airodyssey My heart ❤️ goes out to you! My deepest condolences 💐 for your loss as a result of your move and simultaneously experiencing the permanent closure of a beloved familiar airport, and leaving your old home, as I did with Austin back in 1999! 💔💔💔😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭

@brucetharpe762 6 лет назад

2:20 “The last passenger has arrived, the last flight has departed, the runway is silent.... It is now time to turn the lights off, which has safely guided thousands of arriving aircraft...”

@geomodelrailroader 6 лет назад

and with that Kai Tak is put to bed for the last time. 2:47 "Goodbye Kai Tak and Thank You!" Kai Tak is shutdown and it's IACO Number, Callsign, and IATA LIDS are transferred to Chek Lap Kok Island which is about to open.

@gavinaustin6115 6 лет назад

Goodbye Kai Tak and thank you

@drawstripsyoutube2207 5 лет назад

Are you the manager of the airport??

@kevinlee6434 5 лет назад

It’s so sad

@brucetharpe762 5 лет назад

I am not, I'm just repeating the words as said on that mournful evening.

@brioblancaflor3662 5 лет назад

Wow, that landing of the DragonAirA320, a plane that who knew would be so popular today was just relatively new to people back then.

@michaelho4014 4 года назад

The A320 dates back to 1988, and the A330 dates to 1993! Yet compared to the Boeing 747-200 in its heyday, those two have aged tremendously well! The A320 was ahead of its time by a ginormous longshot. An extremely underrated plane.

@eduardopansera675 4 года назад

Fuça rumo

@arylingga8922 2 года назад

Now, Kai Tak lives on in flight simulators as VHHX

@mysingingarchives 2 года назад

Kai Tak's airport was one of the more memorable airports in the world. Mostly for the really hard plane landing. It's a shame that the airport closed in 1998. However, it was probably for the better because Chek Lap Kok's airport is way safer. Thank you for serving millions of people, Kai Tak.

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

I think it is also a shame that Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in Texas did not possess nearby hilly mountainous terrain and risky approaches and landings (and, in the opposite direction, takeoffs 🛫 and climb-outs!), was a somewhat safer airport, and yet had the same fate and followed Hong Kong Kai Tak ten months later in 1999. 😢😢😢😢

@RzGarage 7 лет назад

Such a sad day, it also represent a golden ERA of Hong Kong has ended...

@dododakowski2813 5 лет назад

Nope.Its good that it closed because we could otherwise have got 9/11 way earlier

@zachleung9041 5 лет назад

Do Dodakowski wheezed-

@davskol 4 года назад

@@dododakowski2813 What?

@dododakowski2813 4 года назад

@@davskol Have you seen the approaches? This was destined to fail sooner or later. But now fortunatly never.

@davskol 4 года назад

@@dododakowski2813 Ok I thought you where talking about som terror plot that never happened. Yes I know. I've landed there twice. Since the landing was so challenging the pilots didn't relax, the landing never became routine and hence there where very few accidents at Kai Tak.

@ariadhikarayendra5111 6 лет назад

They all look both happy and sad in the last clip

@Stephen-Steven-Stephens 4 года назад

"Goodbye Kai Tak and thank you"

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

Similarly, and incidentally ten months later, 5,000+ miles east across the Pacific: “Goodbye Austin-Robert Mueller and thank you.” 😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔

@lucascalma605 4 года назад

R.I.P. Kai Tak Airport 1925-1998

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

And R.I.P. Robert Mueller Airport in Austin, Texas 1930-1999

@filipecoutinho5706 2 года назад

2:20 ah yes, the mithological Nokia ring tone ..

@AlonsoRules 2 года назад

imagine being the last passenger to step off a plane at Kai Tak

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

And also imagine being the last passenger to step off a plane at Austin-Robert Mueller Airport a short ten months after Kai Tak was permanently shut down :’(

@DisneyMBTVCNetwork 5 лет назад

The Hong Kong 🇭🇰 International Airport opened on July 6, 1998, the summer of that year, just a year after The Transfer of Sovereignty over Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Handover Ceremony On July 1, 1997.

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

And, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport opened on May 23, 1999, just over two years before the beginning of the 21st Century and 09/11/2001

@William65362 2 года назад

A beautiful airport has gone. Goodbye Kai Tak, and thank you. ❤

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

Followed by yet ANOTHER beautiful airport in the beautiful capital city of the U. S. State of Texas- ten months later 😿. Another beautiful airport disappears like Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport on the night of May 22-23, 1999, thousands of miles away across the Pacific, half-way between the two US Coasts, only about 100 💯 miles northwest and inland from the northwestern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Another beautiful airport- this time in the U.S.!- has gone. Goodbye Robert Mueller Airport, and thank you. ❤

@peteradaniel 4 года назад

Omg listen to all those vintage ringtones

@ZakwanYuni17 2 года назад

"Goodbye Kai Tak and Thank you" Everyone: *cheers*

@duckyyt2628 Год назад

No because they're like saying "Thanks for being with us" Something like that

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

Incidentally, similarly, ten months later, 5,000+ miles across the Pacific: “Goodbye Austin Robert Mueller Airport and thank you” Everyone: 👏👏👏👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏👏👏👏

@masonloh1411 2 года назад

Back in 1988 I was sitting on left side a few rows behind the 747 wing on a late night landing . prior to landing the plane made a sharp left / so steep my ass was on the side of the seat & I can see the plane window practically below me ! then I can hear the wings flex up down - metal flexing sounds - Flash of lights going by 100 + mph then amazing landing.

@kenlee-97 10 месяцев назад

Sure the last steep turn wasn't actually to the right as the video shows???

@Mat7920H 6 лет назад

It's been almost 20 years

@Tsurumaki-uk7zm 2 года назад

Good bye Kai talk airport you will still be my favorite airport

@szewei85 Год назад

Double Impact the movie shows KAI TAK plane landing shot so beautifully😄😄😆😆

@JosephVegas-qg5og 9 месяцев назад

2:20

@gameofjanko822 6 лет назад

0:01 Kai Tak workers and new hong kong airport workers 2:05

@thomash7247 5 лет назад

@odzergaming 4 месяца назад

1:52 giant airport with barely any departures, now there is a departure every 5 minutes

@benchew3845 2 года назад

Goodbye kai tak , welcome chek lap kok hk international airport. Welcome kai tak cruise terminal.

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

In a similar way and fashion, only ten months after the events in Hong Kong: Goodbye austin-robert mueller , welcome austin-bergstrom international airport tx. Welcome mueller district of austin, texas, u.s.

@scopex2749 4 года назад

VERY SAD that UK GAVE UP HK as the islanders are asking for us to take it back And sad that Kai Tak is no more used to LOVE the white knuckle approach and take offs!😢

@rztrzt 9 месяцев назад

Goodby Kai Tak and thank you! Hong Kong will always be a special place in the hearts of many.

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

Ten months later, Austin’s Robert Mueller Municipal Airport went the way of Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Airport: Goodby Austin-Mueller Airport, and thank you. As will Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in the U.S. State of Texas! Like Hong Kong 🇭🇰, Austin, Texas will also be a special place in the hearts of many.

@Trace32 7 лет назад

why people so happy ?

@d3soz 3 года назад

I'm in this little small Hong Kong contry

@geomodelrailroader 6 лет назад

Kia Tak is shutdown and it's IATA LIDS, Callsign, and ICAO Number have been transferred to Chek Lap Kok Island Airport which is about to open. 2:50 "Good Bye Kai Tak and Thank You!"

@decraft2005 2 года назад

0:01 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@philippineaviationgeek3214 8 лет назад

Hong Kong was transferred to the People's Republic of China in 1997 and Kai Tak was closed in 1998. coincidence? nah.

@angelog4150 7 лет назад

Yuzuru Otonashi Its not. The British started constructing Chep Lak Kok starting in the late 80s. The airport was supposed to open by the time the Chinese took over but they were running behind schedule. They were even afraid that the Chinese would stop the project, but they granted Hong Kong one more year to finish the airport.

@RzGarage 7 лет назад

British dont want to take the money that left for Hong Kong, and they also dont want The chinese to take the money, so they build whatever they could think of before 1997, such a sad day

@joeb5080 7 лет назад

You think it takes just one year to plan and construct a brand new airport?

@geomodelrailroader 6 лет назад

it took 6 years to plan and 7 to build. not only did they have to build Chek Lap Kok Island and it's airport they had to build Lantau and the expressway, they had to build the Kap Shui Mun Bridge, they had to build the Mu Won Helix, they had to build the Tsing Ma Bridge over the Lantau Straights, they had to build the Kwai Chung Expressway, they had to build the Western Harbor Tunnel, they had to build the train station on the former site of Kai Tak, they had to build tracks for MTR, and they had to build Stone Cutter Bridge all before Chek lap Kok opened in 1998. But it came at a cost The Carbonak Gang hacked the airport on opening day delaying flights, erasing cargo manifest, and shutting the airport down. Then in 1999 Hurricane Sam destroyed the airport, Hong Kong, and the Pearl Delta and shot down China Air 642 which crashed into the airport's Datum Lights. They were over budget, understaffed, and under funded but The Brits and the Chinese got it built and operational NOAA and USGS helped Hong Kong and the Chinese set up the Hong Kong Observatory which houses the Wind Tracer Program, The Pacific Hurricane Center, The Pacific Tsunami Center, and the Pacific Earthquake Center. If any natural disaster hits the Pacific Rim this place will know and sound the alarm.

@geomodelrailroader 6 лет назад

the extension helped but hackers brought it down on the first day. flights were delayed, cargo was a mess, and then a careless hacker erased the cargo manifest. 572 tons of freight had to be rejected. But that was not the worse that happened that fall Hurricane Sam hit Hong Kong and China Air 642 crashed on Runway 25 L it is still the worse accident to occur at Chek Lap Kok.

@christianlouise1267 7 лет назад

KAI TAK 1:17am

@skylineXpert 7 лет назад

it would have been to dangerous if kai tak kept operating today.

@alexanderip1003 6 лет назад

that *Checkerboard Manoeuvre is far too difficult to perform *Checkerboard Hill is a large hill with an Aviator's checkerboard painted over it designed to guide pilots for a safe landing at Kai Tak Airport (this kind of aviation practice was later redundant and henceforth abolished upon moving to Chek Lap Kok)

@dododakowski2813 5 лет назад

And thats the excact case.

@scarecrow108productions7 4 года назад

@@dododakowski2813 not only that, but also due to increasing traffic congestion.

@islenyovillas 3 года назад

Ahhh old HK.....

@nthglasScotland 6 лет назад

I really hope Hung Kung does not go full on commie! A lot of the ethnic people actually escaped mainland China & all that nonsense many decades ago. I do hope the people can be strong enough x. & thank you all for your loyalty over the centuries x.

@lumpython5351 9 месяцев назад

Hong Kong was a better place when it's under Commonwealth.

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in the US State of Texas may not have possessed hilly mountainous terrain and dramatic landing 🛬 approaches and (in the opposite direction) the dramatic takeoffs 🛫 and 47-degree angle 📐 turns that skim only a few feet above the rooftops of high-rise buildings that Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport possessed, but Kai Tak Airport’s US counterpart in the State of Texas- Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport- which also had the same fate as Kai Tak Airport the following year in 1999, is another sorely missed airport that holds a special place in many Texans’ hearts and minds, just as Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport holds a special place in the hearts and minds of many Hong Kongers and millions of people around the world. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

@joshsdrive 26 дней назад

why are you spamming your anguish amongst the comments though

@TFS548 2 года назад

no I'm not crying you're the one crying

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

I’m crying too! In TEARS! 😭

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

It is truly sad, tragic, and heartbreaking 😢💔😭 to see airports like Hong Kong Kai Tak International Airport in Hong Kong 🇭🇰, China 🇨🇳, in 1998 and Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in Austin, Texas, USA 🇺🇸, in 1999 be shut down forever and torn up to be converted into non-aviation infrastructure! 😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭. THIS IS JUST SO HEARTBREAKING!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 It is like the death of a close family member. I feel the EXACT SAME ANGUISH and PROFOUND SUFFERING felt by those who mourn the permanent closure and demise of Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport in China 🇨🇳 and the permanent closure and demise of Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in the US State of Texas! 💔💔💔💔😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I share the anguish and profound sorrow of those who feel sorrow and anguish at the demise of Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport, as I had experienced the VERY SAME THING in Austin, Texas, with Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

@Seikokinkai 3 года назад

thanks kaitak ✈️😍(泣)　fromTokyo

@kenlee-97 10 месяцев назад

Yep- that was a frigging amazing intro for ANY MOVIE...

@agthm_3 2 года назад

saya datang dari koii

@theknightaviation 3 года назад

all good things have to come to an end :)

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

It’s HEARTBREAKING 💔 when things come to a close/come to an end!

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

This is just so heartbreaking, 💔, and it just keeps getting MORE heartbreaking 💔! 😭😭😭😭😭😭

@AEROPLANEBURROWS 7 лет назад

0.35, is that an Emirates 777?

@changedlastnamebecauseitwasbad 7 лет назад

Ethan yes

@leospitz8958 7 лет назад

Ethan :(

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

I saw a Japan Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-11 at Hong Kong Kai Tak that night

@artiga15208 4 месяца назад

Yes

@HplusG 4 года назад

Reopen Kai Tak immediately!

@kenlee-97 10 месяцев назад

You can visit there, it's now the international cruise ship terminal now. And I believe had some tributes monuments to the old airport. When I eas there in 2018 (just has been refurbished and it was almost completely refurbished- I could still see yje runway numbers (RWY 13 )- at the end of the runway from the old airport days from 1998!!!

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

@HplusG BOY, DO I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL!! At one point in time, back in the 2000s decade, I also thought, “Reopen Austin-Robert Mueller Airport NOW!” So yes, I DO share your anguish and agony at missing a familiar airport that you had grown close with! It’s no different than a death in the family! 😭😭😭😭😭 Unfortunately I’ve never been to Hong Kong myself, but make no mistake, I would have also have felt sorrow, agony, and anguish at seeing Kai Tak Airport be shut down and torn up, too! The same heartache over Kai Tak Airport being shut down and torn up, as I felt over Austin-Mueller Airport having the same fate as Kai Tak! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

@odzergaming 4 месяца назад

How do you reopen an airport with no runway and apartments all over it and a stadium

@altanz3576 2 года назад

有陳方安生和曾蔭權，好懷念那時候的香港啊！！！可惜，馬上警棍要掌權港首了，歎…

@MrPalaad 2 года назад

no wonder airplains crash in asia.

@robloxlovera6362 2 месяца назад

Airplanes* learn how to spell.

@DB-qw6xq 4 года назад

Now let's dump communism and re-open Kai Tak for trade with the free world!!

@scarecrow108productions7 4 года назад

How so? It's been congested for so long since the 90s. An expansion would've helped though instead of building a new airport. When Kai Tak closed, a part of Hong Kong died with this airport.

@fongkei523 3 года назад

@@scarecrow108productions7 The approach, the approach! Some people who flew in Kai Tak said that they could see people in their living rooms while landing!

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

⁠⁠⁠⁠@@scarecrow108productions7 Ditto with Austin’s Robert Mueller Municipal Airport and Austin, Texas, itself! When Robert Mueller Airport closed ten months after its Chinese counterpart Kai Tak Airport did, a part of Austin, Texas, U.S.A., died with Hong Kong Kai Tak’s U.S. counterpart in Texas.

@hifive1849 6 лет назад

why the hell they are wasting water and energy to clean airport while it's closed

@Alex-bb1xn 5 лет назад

hi five they’re cleaning the new airport in preparation for its opening, you dumbarse.

@straightpipediesel 2 года назад

1:22 isn't the old airport, Kai Tak, that's the new one, Chek Lap Kok. There were still some unfinished bits when it opened, which caused issues, particularly in air cargo.

@user-e-idk 2 года назад

@@straightpipediesel that is the new airport

@szewei85 Год назад

Haha and i just finished HK vacation yesterday and i see CLK is also expanding which is way better lets call this the phase 2 refreshing hahahaha

@hifive1849 6 лет назад

all are drunk

@LATENGOGRUESA30 Год назад

Why they are happy ? :(

@szewei85 Год назад

Happy 2 be in bigger and safer airport PS : i just finished HK vacation yesterday and man its exactly the same vibe as seen in TVB dramas hahahaha

@LATENGOGRUESA30 Год назад

@@szewei85 nah thx i prefer tokyo, i go in december

@lizzie9300 4 месяца назад

⁠@@szewei85 Hate to break it to you, buddy, but in Austin there were also some people who were happy that the much larger Austin Bergstrom International Airport had opened in Robert Mueller Airport’s place, just as Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok International Airport had opened on a reclaimed land island near Downtown Hong Kong, in Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport’s place. ☹️

@szewei85 4 месяца назад

@@lizzie9300 haha cool