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  • Wow, they land really close to the highway. I would have panicked the first time I saw that if I was driving. I'm in Denver and there's nothing for miles around the runway.

  • @samus28 you should see the st marteens landings.

  • Yep, the pilot was required to fly the ILS and when he had the marker board/target board sighted, he would commence a right hand turn following the guidance lights (I can't remember the exact term for them) to the runway.

  • tnx 4  the memories!

  • FUCKING SKILLFUL

  • i wish kai tak airport still existed

  • @qantas737800 hell no!

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  • Wow.. can't believe Hong Kong had their airport in Kai Tak for so long.. I have had the experience of flying into (MAS from the old Subang airport) and taking off (now defunct Canadian Airlines to Hong Kong) from there just 2 years before it closed for good.. wow

  • They scrapped this airport so the A380 could not land there

  • @cjellwood They could land on the other side of the runway

  • sad to see such a beautiful aircraft is such a shit hole of a city

  • I did my first trip to HK and was the last year kai tak was gonna be used,a crazy experience u could see buildings out of the plane's window.Really crazy

  • last years may i flied from london to here. really nice airport!

  • Real Nice

  • To think that in just 60 years, we went from the Wright Bros. to such a powerful and graceful machine such as the B747.

  • @laserstun dont forget the space shuttle :D

  • @laserstun Amazing isn't it? And to think that the Wright brothers' first flight can be done in the economy section of the 747 is another proof of the incredible progress of aviation. Too bad nobody have yet to crack the elusive supersonic transport that's both economical and is harmless to the environment.

  • Incredible, the amount of skill in that flying!

  • amazing.... humans actually built that thing !!

  • nice landing

  • I flew this in a DC-10 simulator at night, ridiculously hard approach!

  • Artistry.

  • it must suck to live in one of those buildings...

  • lol get that finger out of the wayt!!!

  • That's amazing skills to the millionth power with a cherry on top. Damn!

  • Great videotaping....! Heck, I'd hate to live there...it's like sleeping on a bomb.. don't know when it's going to go off!!!

  • Why do I hear the intro song to Enter The Dragon when I see this? LOL!!!

  • they sure as hell dont have much time to flare

  • glad that this video is not another computer game jerk-off footage.

  • @bluebearbank247 It is. Aren't the graphics amazing?

  • huge!

  • my dad and his family used to live around that airport...

  • i miss kai tak, the night view was just so awsome.

  • I love the sound of those RR engines :D

  • that took some skill

  • Extreme Landing! I prefer the new airport though. More safe and smooth landing.

  • Extreme Landing! I prefer the new airport though. More safe and smooth landing.

  • It sucks that they closed Kai Tak... I really love the turn at the end.

  • aahi really need somebody to Well yah should find out

  • 45 degree bank in a 747. That's cool. Look at the aileron response at that slow speed. My uncle used to tell me about the approach into Hong Kong. 747 captain for South African Airways in the 80's & 90's. The 747 is still and will be for a long time the queen of the skies. Have you seen the 747-800. Beautiful. Maybe I am just partial ;-)

  • @zsifk didnt understand a word you said

  • @zsifk Hey My dad was a 747-400 captain for SAA aswell! :D he's been in aviation for 39 years :)

  • do you live near Kai Tak?

  • if that was hk international airport then i landed there before.

    heck that might even be my plane

  • Nope this is a real landing mad skillzz..

  • I heard they use computers to land aircraft now.

  • @undertake782 Thing is, there is no IFR approach at Kai Tak. Landing at Kai Tak is strictly VFR, because there is no IFR frequency at Kai Tak Approach. They have (or had) landing lights curved in to guide you into the runway, and a red and white checkerboard pattern about a quarter kilometre to the left to indicate the point of turnaround. Kai Tak is now closed, but you can look up the approach lights and checkerboard up on Google Images to see how it was done.

  • @undertake782 negative.

    almost all

    i mean

    alllllllll

    are landed manually unless there are visibility problems

  • I used to go to a preschool in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The planes always pass over this area, and you'd be amazed how people living there get so used to it. It's not every day you see planes sweeping so low above the apartments and streets in both broad daylight and the evenings.

    Ah, the memories.

  • xD :)))

  • Wow!

    Amazing!

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  • yes!

  • nope, I saw hundreds of landings just like that, and landed there a few tens of times myself

  • 747-200 no doubt

  • B747-200

  • thats the new C919 not the 747

  • uhhh... no. the c919 is a twin engine.

  • 747-200

  • Me too...a bit nostalgic seeing these scenes...

    It was my town, my airport, my CX

    It's a 747-300, huge plane

  • to jcadlols - the old airport was fun, challenging and added to many a tourists memory bank. I remember the old joke...

    ".. 747 heavy - bank right at Mrs Lo's clothes line'

  • 0:39, nice thing in the foreground ;)

  • Thank god for the new airport!

  • may i ask what the fuck is wrong with kai tak?????

  • It was much dangerous to land in, so they built a new and much more safe airport outside the city. And from personal experience, the new one is much better!

  • My dad flies a330's and 340's for cathay, used to fly the classics. trust me the old approach is nowhere near as dangerous as it may look.

  • Well i guess i cant argue with that, but i like the design of the new airport better! The red carpet club is sooo nice! :D

  • The only thing that i don't like is losing that aproach, seeing the buildings and the cars. made it exciting for every one on the plane (other than those who thought they would die) i guess im a bit nostalgic.

  • i guess that always was kinda fun! :)

  • arigato

  • cool quick stop

  • this is just an everyday thing for pilots, some pilots just rox03rs ur b0x3rs

  • theres a one in three chance my dad was flying that plane

  • sweet

  • nice gud job

  • uouuu! iraaado!

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  • That was a 747 'Classic' I believe.

  • affirm,that because 747 classic don't have a winglet like 747-400

  • very cool

  • beautiful

  • i just love that !! :D

  • thats a perfect executed landing!!

  • omfg!! hardest landing ever!

  • Again, it's not Kai Tak. Chek Lap Kok airport.

  • this is the oLd airport at Kai Tak dood..but they closed it down July 1998

  • Its Kai Tak. Chek Lap Kok is on an island,

  • know your Facts before you comment

  • So they are all waiting for an accident before they would tell themselves..

    "Who the F#ck thought of building that Airport next to a mountain and tall buildings!?!?!?!"

    right now.. its all good though lol

  • they dont really have very many other options

  • woohoo safe landing!

  • Can't imagine how difficult it is to land there with crosswind...!

  • Mountains on three sidesno escape landing area.buildings interfering wind patterns .steep approach angle.sharp right turn on landing increases stall speed.short runway..other than that its a normal airport!

  • Everytime I used this airport I thought I was going to die!

  • you know

    that is very busy airport in HK

  • Was, not is

  • I get the impression this is a big deal. Why ?

  • this airport is next to a mountain and tall buildings they have to make a steep turn and take off u also have to make a steep turn to avoid the mountain

  • that can be the plane i was in but duno lol

  • pity that Kai Tak has been closed up....

  • Every clip I see of old Kai Tak landings it is windy? Is that the way it always is? Makes the videos that much more fun!

  • haha kai tak approach is always a bitch

  • I heard that pilots around the world miss Kai Tak Airport because it was the only airport in which they had to land manually, rather than letting the autopilot do its job. True or not, I miss Kai Tak xD

  • Until the current airport was built on Lantau Island, Kai Tak was known for having one of the shortest runways of all the international airports in the world. With only 1 or 2 runways for take offs and landings, I would presume all take offs begin heading toward the bay, which was why the take offs were always at a steeper angle than flights from other airports; and landings come in from inland Kowloon.

  • Kai Tak didn't have a short runway. The "only" special thing was an offset approach requiring a 47 degree turn at 400 feet!

    I've done it the jump seat 5 times, so trust me!

  • it must be horrible to live there. so noisy

  • I personally would love it :-) Planes are the best!

  • nice flying

  • My grandfather grew up in the neighbourhood around Kai Tak and he told me when he was a boy, the runway used to cut cross the avenue you saw on the clip. So every time when a plane needs to use the runway, the cops will come in, stop the traffic, let the plane take off/land, and open the road up again.

  • why didnt they just aproach from the other side?

  • thank you the new coloure is better than the old coloure

  • the honkanese have a lot of buildings

  • hard landing

  • when cathay pacific change his coloure??????ß

  • They started changing livery in the mid 90s and was done by the 2000s.

  • Very nice :)

  • My grandad was a cathay pacific pilot. He said that was his favourite airport because it was fun to doge aroud the buildings.

  • thanks for posting! this brings back fond memories of standing at the terminal end closest to the runway and enjoying the momentary scare of wondering whether the momentum of the plane not yet out of that turn was somehow going to result in the thing slamming down into the terminal rather than the runway. but then the illusion would pass and the plane would come down safely. nice.

  • mad, but clever

  • very nice...

  • They must have closed after I arrived there. I was there in 1998. It would seem that the airplane would fly close to the city since the country is so small. They don't have much room,

  • man that pilot got balls.

  • GEEZUZ THAT WAS BADASS!!! :o Look at the angle of turning.The pilot need really godlike skills and balls of titanium to land there...damn.

  • That is actually pretty routine to land there, and i've been doing it for years until they closed it, you turn at a hill that has what looks like a checkerboard on it and that angle wasn't more than 25 degrees or his bank angle indicator would sound

  • You use to be a pilot for the HK airport?

  • pilots got a lot of practise doing that, but the angle was hard and quite a few planes fell of the end , some might of hit buildings , im not sure.

  • Why did they have to close this airport, even if they built a new one.

  • cuz that's damn hongkong where people would kill each other for commercial land.

  • ohhh.

  • I like the big shadow passing through the roads and bridges. Beautiful

  • That would be exciting. That is what makes different places so fun.

  • It's amazing to watch a plane that huge line up with a runway off such a steep banking turn. But it's also outrageous that a plane of any size would have to nearly fly into a mountain on a descent & then make a sharp turn immediately before landing (which is the most dangerous part of a flight - even with a straight approach.) And with crosswinds from the mountainside right next to it? Fascinating & entertaining but also very upsetting. 'Negligence' & 'disregard' are words that come to mind.

  • It's closed now :)

  • ha ha yeah It's closed man and with an excellent records!

  • Dude, they don't even use this airport anymore. They closed in in 1998. Negligence and disregard...take a chill pill mate..

  • yeah mad skills.

  • i always love the old checkerboard landing videos..

    The Mad Bomber..

  • I would love to live in one of the apartments across from the airport/across the water, as you could watch airplanes everyday!

  • Im so glad I don't live in any of those apartment buildings

  • Why not? With the airport gone now, real-estate prices are through the roof. It's a nice part of town now I hear

  • oh, I didn't know the airport was removed, I made my comment thinking people still lived there having the airport in their backyard. Pardon my ignorance.

  • planes are very interesting and amazing :)

  • Is it me or was the CatPac Pilot a little long on his touch-down?

  • i dunno

  • u'll notice he lands on the upper markers...he was fine :)

  • Whatever are great pilots.

  • mean as..

  • wow cool landing...

  • Wow..That is a nutty approach..!

  • this is cool i like cathay pacific. i've flown many times to the philippines and we stop in hong kong. the hong kong flight is flippin 13 hours from LA to Hong Kong..and cathay pacific made it really comfy, unlike philippine airlines :] very safe

  • Chibiryuhe you are right and yep there's a lot of hopeless people like 'CathayPacificPilot' who have nothing better to do with their lives than mislead people. You are entirely correct about the aircraft as well.

  • Cathay Pacific have only 747-400 and they called 744-400, if you dont know anything please dont make such comments.

  • there is no such thing as a 744-400. 744 is the shortened code for 747-400, just like a 737-800 is 738. and taking a look back on the video i realised my ignorance before and have got to say this looks to me like a 743. yes CX only operate 744s in this current day but did operate 742s and 3s prior to their 744s. second floor is way too long for a 744.

  • This is not a B744, notice it has no winglets?

  • did i say it was? no. learn to read the comment before you refer to my comment.

    can i just ask though. why does a 14 year old french child have his username as "CathayPacificPilot"? if you are trying to mislead people into thinking your something that your not then u have just failed miserably. you are not a pilot, dont pretend to be one.

  • to add to that, on your profile your shortened username reads "cpapilot". i wonder where you got cpa from? anyone with half a commercial aviation brain would know that the abbreviation for cathay pacific is CX and not cpa.

  • Search up Cathay on wikipedia. CPA is for ICAO, CX is IATA

  • Do you think Im stupid enough to put that. Did I say I was a Cathay Pacific Pilot? Im I really 14 am I even french? human? Who knows...

  • IATA codes are primary dumb shit. ICAO codes are never used in industry.

    and to think the basis of your agruements would even come from wikipedia makes you sound even more infantile.

    as for the pilot part:

    "CathayPacificPilot"

    Age: 14

    France (French Flag)

    i rest my case

  • What do you mean by never used in industry?

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  • Umm.. what the hell why did you posted that?

  • saying that a aircraft manufacturer as a whole are rubbish is just childish. all manufacturers make good and bad... some work for some others dont. it is just narrow minded to think that every single airbus a/c is bad. look at the A380 for instance. new innovation for the industry as a whole? considering i have 3 degrees in aviation related subjects, one of them being a BA Hons, i really dont think its worth argueing.

  • Very nice comment, you are right about the different companys having good and bad. Take a look at DC for example, they have some good aircraft yet have a bad rep in some cases. Also nice comment about the 380 and its new inovation for the industry. Boeing has also done something new with the787. I do want to point out tho, that i may not know a whole lot about Cathay Pacific, but i am also educated in civil aviation, and i fly the CRJ-900.

  • thanks for the reply. the CRJ is a lovely a/c :) your reply was spot on about DC models. take the DC-10 for instance, the track record for catastrophic faults in the design and egineering were huge but then the DC-9 has always been a great a/c.

    im applying to NATS soon to go off for ATCO training although im also looking at the military way through now as it seems much easier for junior ATCOs to break through that way these days.

  • I work for NATS, good luck applying, it's a tough assessment to get in to the college, but it's very achievable and worth it. A military base can be beneficial although no-one on my course had any. I was interested by your comment about IATA codes being used primarily in the "industry", at NATS, and in ATC generally, ICAO codes are used for all aircraft, airfield designators etc.

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