Nice landing Mr Pilot! (Pics)
 

Taken at Hong Kong Kai tak airport, wich is now closed.

http://www.interracialwoman.com/gfy/kai_tak1.jpg

http://www.interracialwoman.com/gfy/kai_tak2.jpg

Try to explain this load and balance problem to your boss:

http://www.interracialwoman.com/gfy/lb1.jpg

http://www.interracialwoman.com/gfy/lb2.jpg

What a miracle Pics.....Really nice to see..

damn did anyone get hurt

Nice parking job, lol:1orglaugh

is that tokyo???

their old airport was messed i heard it was scary landing there

wow that's a close call

Good Lord!:Oh crap

No, infact that airport was amongst alot of pilots known as the most dangerous airport in the world but they didn't have one fatality. The runway was set between two mountains. Approach was a 90 degree turn JUST before touchdown. Here is a clip of a 747 doing the approach but the pilots don't have the right direction on short final and are just able to correct a few feet before touch down:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...43022111722945

Alot of tires got blown overthere :Oh crap

That's Kai Tak, Hong Kong. The airport is closed now though.

that airport was cursed

wow .. thats not good :)

he needs to go to terrorist training school lmao he sux

http://www.airchive.com/airline%20pi...k%20aerial.jpg
http://www.airchive.com/airline%20pi...0Kai%20Tak.jpg
http://homepage1.nifty.com/alfaromeo/KAITAK/head4.gif
http://www.planet-wissen.de/pics/IEP...en_kai_tak.jpg
ORLY?
http://www.rob.com/pic/747/kai_tak_F...9463.sized.jpg

ID LOVE TO SEE YOU LAND THAT... trust me man its insanly hard to land... hes lucky he didn't touch a building

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Coming home from Mexico one year we were rocking like that coming in, everybody on the plane was freaking out.

Great Landing! I hope the pilot of that plane
was fired after that incident...

:thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

would have been scary..

dammm nice pics

Mr. Romance

man that is amazing. For the small birds, it should not be hard, but for a 747??

damn....

Oh Man!!! That pilot has some serious skills:thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

My friend Dan is a pilot based out of Hong Kong airport. I really wouldn't be surprised if that was him LOL

Thanks God people are ok!!

Crazy stuff !!

landing a plane is harder than you think
especially that big mofo plane right there

thankfully no one got hurt

that looks sick

Get the fuck outta here - if that's the landing path of all aircraft, that's seriously disturbing :helpme

Why do you think they closed the airport? Do some google research on 'Kai tak checkerboard approach" and you'll find that the approach was a 90 degree turn on short final. The name "checkerboard approach" is because there was a big checkerboard on the hills where pilots could see they needed to begin there turn before touch down.

Here some pics of aircraft starting the turn at the checkerboard:

http://www.interracialwoman.com/gfy/checker1.jpg

http://www.interracialwoman.com/gfy/checker2.jpg

Because of the short distance between the turn and the actuall touch down this resulted in alot of pilots doing corrections at very low altitude:

http://www.interracialwoman.com/gfy/correct1.jpg

Wich resulted in very "crab" landings:

http://www.interracialwoman.com/gfy/correct2.jpg

Exactly, the thing with the 747 is the pilots didn't get any chanse for a "go around" at that approach, the approach path was set so low that the 747 wouldn't have time to build up enough power to lift the aircraft up again after the turn. If the pilots are out of direction after the turn they only have one option: correct it or hit the dirt or water.

Good thing they closed that airport.

Planes get off-balance sometimes...

Those are some crazy, yet cool pics

From how I see asian people driving here in Cali, I'd have to say that in China, that'd be considered a good landing.

Amazing pics

That is for respect!!!

That's good work for others

lol holy shit that looks nuts.

More pics at www.photos.aero

ouch... :Oh crap

I flew into there in '85 but never noticed the right angle turn. I was too busy wondering if the wings were gonna clip people's laundry they had out on their balconies. :uhoh

Woah, thats some scary stuff right there! Amazing people can land like that!

:1orglaugh :thumbsup

i live in Irvine/Tustin.. this is their "forward base" away from China, it seems.

My favorite is the giant visors they wear, totally obstructing most of their field of vision.

Not that it matters, they don't use mirrors (or common sense) when executing lane changes.

oh scary

thats a fucked up airport where were the safety boards when it was being built to begin with