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Pilots reveal death-defying ordeal as engines failed on approach to Chek Lap Kok
When both of Flight CX780’s engines failed on approach to Chek Lap Kok, tragedy looked certain to its pilots, who hadn’t trained for such an emergency. However, outstanding airmanship led to a safe – if not smooth – landing for the 322 people on board. (www.scmp.com) More...
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Thanx for the link. Don't have time to listen to all this am, but have sent the link to my resident mate whose family compound was hard up against the last marker going into Kai Tak.
I'll be listening to it to. There are several of us on here that had the pleasure of "calling the board" on a "Charley Approach". As some were talking a few weeks back, although it is closed, there ought to be a SIM program for all new pilots on that one; if nothing else but to make them give praise they won't ever have to do it. Many of the carriers of that day had to run a force board to get senior crews on that run and some made special effort to qualify crews on that run or put premium pay on it.
The page would not come up for me.
http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1491534/pilots-reveal-death-defying-ordeal-engines-failed-approach
Thanks steven
The Radio Documentary about landing at the old Hong Kong Airport with contributions from pilots who flew this challenging approach on the IGS-13 making a sharp right at the checkerboard at 500ft over the Kowloon buildings with just seconds to line up and land on the runway often in treacherous weather conditions. NOTE THIS IS AUDIO ONLY. Over 1000 hours production time went in this project which features three flight deck landing (one in a simulator training for an engine fire on take off. Contributors include captains David West, Dick Duxbury, Chip Crosby, Ralph Requa, Barry Schiff, Manny Puerta, Tom Erikson, Chip Crosby, Randy Sohn, Tim Olson, Jim Hancock, Nick Bristow, and from Hong Kong Airport GM Tony Norman. Produced by John MacCalman and first broadcast on Radio Clyde in 1998 with special thanks to British Airways, Northwest Airlines (now part of Delta), Cathay Pacific and the most excellent team at Hong Kong Air Traffic Control.