Impressive
 

Have had some serious cross winds, but nothing like this

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...92853543566084

Makes you wonder where they train their pilots?? Kai Tak is tough enough without having to do stunts like that one. Maybe that's why I pulled my sister-in-law off of a Korean flight and put her on AC to HKG using my miles!

DF

Note to Doc; Kai Tak hasn't been used for regular commercial scheduled airline passengers since 1998.

thats an amazing shot......

Man, I will take that pilot any day. Maybe I should start flying with Korean Air.

DutchSE: thanks for the link. I'm sure this video will be of interest to members all over FlyerTalk.

Note: Hope you don't mind but i edited to thread title to be a bit more descriptive.

Yes I know, but it is still a video of a very bad approach into Kai Tak.

Think of it as a re-run :D

DF

Another one
 

Here is the scariest one I've seen, TAP (trying to) landing in bad weather:

http://www.flightlevel350.com/Aircra...Video-116.html

There must have been many cross-signs made in that plane...

Here's another one for you:
http://tinyurl.com/eoyjh

The reason it sticks out is I was flying out of Kai Tak back in early July '98 a few days prior to the switchover. I was a rush setting in the top deck of a NW 747 for your first time to HKG. :D

Back in 1975 I spent a summer in HK as a student. I stayed with friends of my parents who lived on top of a hill in Kowloontong. From their rooftop garden I had a birds eye view of the famous checkerboard and we were high enough that I could tell if an airliner was on glidepath by whether or not I could look into the pax windows as they went by.

I have fond memories of sitting for hours with a Sony airband receiver watching airliners from all over the world do the curved ILS.

DF

These videos are incredible!

The first video is classic. Anyone have the link to the article about that landing?

Edit: Here's another landing that I'd hate to be in :D

Some more good stuff here: http://www.micom.net/oops/

Wow! Thanks for the link! ^