Kai Tak Airport Notoriously Challenging Airport From Hong Kong
Kai Tak Airport - Hong Kong, the most dangerous airport in the world!
Extraordinary
as to seem impossible pictures showcases precisely why the world's most
dangerous airport in Hong Kong was shut down 15 years ago.
To bring
into prominence, Kai Tak airport was shut in 1998 subsequent to the
deadly incidents resulted accompanied by more repeated at the same time
airport was overcrowded. These pictures taken between 1992 and 1998 by
teacher Daryl Scott Chapman, 41, who moved to Hong Kong from Aylesbury,
Buckinghamshire aged 16. Accompanied by a hazardous runway that jut out
into the sea, at the same time a descent through skyscrapers as well
rugged mountains, Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong was seen as the ultimate
test of a pilot's skills. The airport- which was shut down in 1998- was
the site of mismanaged landings that included planes crashing into the
water as well clipping buildings on their downward inclination. These
extraordinary as to seem impossible images showcases the moment
experienced pilots struggled with the outrageously dangerous landing, in
precedence of the airport was closed by the government in 1998 for its
poor safety record.
The Kai
Tak landing required special training as pilots had to take a
challenging last-minute manual turn known as a 'Hong Kong Turn' after
they saw a checkerboard reference point above Kowloon Tsai Park. The
fearsome lofty downward inclination over the harbour as well as crowded
high-rise tower blocks meant Kai Tak was welcomed as the sixth most
dangerous airport in the world. Moreover, Kai Tak was Hong Kong's main
airport until 1998 who was known to have experienced distress a shocking
12 air disasters with 270 people killed during this time - yet was
manipulating near-about 30 million passengers per-year by 1996. The
prominent at the same time deadliest incident was a US Marines Hercules
flight which was thrust forcibly into the harbour shortly subsequent to
it's take-off in 1965, destroying 59 passengers. In fact, 24 passengers
were killed during a typhoon landing in 1967 as well as in 1993, a
Boeing 747 overran the runway during a typhoon. The site of those
dramatic flights has now been gained with determination once considered
to be the new Kai Tak Cruise Terminal with the purpose of the cruise
liners.
Enjoy the slide-show to know why the Kai Tak Airport- Hong Kong is so dangerous!
(AW:Samrat Biswas)
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