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Landings at the Old Kai Tak Airport, HKG

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Old 01-13-2010, 02:40 PM
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Thumbs up Landings at the Old Kai Tak Airport, HKG


For any of you who ever lived in or visited Hong Kong before
1997 and were fortunate to land at the old Kai Tak Airport you will love this!! For any of you who missed this experience you may still get an idea of what skilful pilots were needed to land a large plane on a narrow strip of land that ran out into the Hong Kong Harbour. Often we joked that we could look in the window of apartment 39 B and see what they were having for their supper upon our approach.. Someone did a fantastic job of compiling different shots of many flights at various times of the day.
Good memories.

The Old Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong...The Most Exhilarating Landing Experience in The World.


Click the address below and make sure your speaker are on.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PCOcyt7BPI&NR=1=/a


Enjoy!
 
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Old 01-13-2010, 09:30 PM
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Pretty cool, I had the chance to see that a couple of times, as usual the video just dosen't do it justice. Always seemed like a crash was imminent.
 
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I remember landing there back in, oh 1974!?! Felt like we were going to land in the middle of town...
 
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I miss that place a lot!
 
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