Building Hong Kong's Airport 香港國際機場 (2004) Part 1/5

[jetrc2008]

The China Airlines overshoot incident didn't kill anyone...there were no fatalities, just injuries

[proximaism]

I am proud to be a King Konger!

[raran44]

i love how all the episodes of extreme engineering claim the featured project is the "biggest engineering project in history". Well, which is it?

[shree711]

@raran44 This actually was at the time and it cost USD$20 billion at the time. Usually when Hong Kongers say it, they are telling the truth whereas when my countrymen (India) say it, they usually are lying because it is sort of nationalist propaganda where they get really happy if anything is done properly in the country.

[wilsonshinkansen]

Hong Kong is a great country, because of UK

[fourzones]

@wilsonshinkansen no, hong kong is shit, and improve your grammar please, your other posts in the shanghai disney section are grammatically incorrect to say the least.

[wilsonshinkansen]

@fourzones

If Hong Kong is shit, than Shanghai is double of shit, bye kid.

[shanir2005]

@wilsonshinkansen and you are a motherfucker

[teddythebenny]

@wilsonshinkansen u do realize, it became UK territory, because of the opium war.. that the UK started, first by giving the chinese opium, for silk and so forth.. making millions addicts.. for economic wealth.. and then the UK goes and sends a fleet and attacks the chinese, because the emperor, decided opium wasnt healthy for the country.. so yes it is a great country, soaked in greed, guilt, and blood.. but anyway, that was a 100 years ago or more.. let it be forgotten..

[ozparkers]

Actually, the point that it was only built to restore confidence is not true. The geotechnical work was done scoping out the site, around 20 years prior.

[ozparkers]

Actually, the point that it was only built to restore confidence is not true. The geotechnical work was done scoping out the site, around 20 years prior.

[ALexpWTFISTHAT]

even now, Hong Kong people don't like being called as a part of China..

even though we ARE, (i'm from Hong Kong, born before the transfer back to Chinese hands) we still like being called a Special Administrative Region, half China, half English =DD

[vief86mo]

i wonder if all of these could be done if hong kong was controlled by china back then. maybe not...

[gangstermind]

Hong Kong Rocks but it will suck after it will be fully control by china :(

[Mysweetstrawberryjam]

darn

i didnt realize that our airport was such a massive engineering project

o well

half the ppl in hong kong moved to the US and canada after the handover

[ee2076875465]

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[ee2076875465]

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[aznboieiji]

i am proud, as always, to be a citizen of hong kong

[msvisio]

the new Hong Kong airport is just amazing!

[rolfch1p]

7 years to complete, 7 hours to move...

[loboyving]

@rolfch1p

amazing

[garlex134]

This should be the eight wonder of the world. Just imagine it, all that done in just 7 years!!!

[RNAinterference]

This documentry doesn't mention that one main reason of undertaking this massive infrastructure project is the June 4th massacre in Beijing (this project announced in 1989, same year as June 4th) and panic after that. By early 1990s HK experienced massive outflow of middle class and highly educated people (ie. "idiots trust Beijing, let's escape the sinking island" thinking). The project's primary goal is to restore confidence

[basket1887]

my math teacher was one of the one invoved in making the air port :)

[LyokoTravels]

Discovery ( U.S.A ) doesn't show Extreme Engineering Anymore =(

[sealalula]

Wow , so this is how they did it.

I should have watched this before i went there thrice this year , I could have appreciate it :D

[LeThoem]

Long Live China! :-)

[lifecurser]

its a very nice video i realy loved and u have all 5 parts, i would give u 10/10 good job and great job hong kong

[andr3w27]

thanks for posting this i went to hong kong just a year after this airport was built. i was so impressed, everything looked so nice they had a train that ran within the airport and also the 'ching ma dai ghiu' bridge was amazing. we arrived in the evening and the sight was exhilarating

[Felixinhk08]

I am proud to be a Hong Konger!

[qwerty3862]

lol same lets do the Hong Kong salute lol joking!

[yoyaya007]

@Felixinhk08 u mean chinese ^

[f1760e]

simply amazing! thanks for posting it

[MadScience8]

Amazing story about this airport.

[chunnamlaw]

thanks for posting, i love this show too and too bad discovery channel doesnt show it anymore

[Iamcrazylolol]

Wow, originally, I thought the workers used seven years just to build the airport. That isn't impressive at all. But with the bridges, tunnels and highways turns it completely around, making this an insane project.

[LyokoTravels]

i love this show ... to bad that discovery channel dose not show it again .... good days