This is probably the most sorely missed airport in the world, for reasons actually quite removed from aviation. We all know the famously thrilling approach path. But it brings so much nostalgia because it's the last widely used piece of colonial-era infrastructure to pass away into history. Its closure was originally planned ahead of the 1997 handover, a pivotal moment in Hong Kong's history. In a somewhat twisted way, the delay in CLK's opening allowed Hong Kong locals to have a slow, year-long farewell to the colonial era by using Kai Tak to fly or do planespotting for another full year.
Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in the US State of Texas may not have possessed hilly mountainous terrain and dramatic landing 🛬 approaches and (in the opposite direction) the dramatic takeoffs 🛫 and 47-degree angle 📐 turns that skim only a few feet above the rooftops of high-rise buildings that Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport possessed, but Kai Tak Airport’s US counterpart in the State of Texas- Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport- which had the same fate as Kai Tak Airport the following year in 1999, is another sorely missed airport that holds a special place in the hearts and minds of many Austinites, in many Texans’ hearts and minds, just as Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport holds a special place in the hearts and minds of many Hong Kongers and millions of people around the world.
@@lizzie9300 Just read up on that. They saved the Mueller control tower! It certainly looked more remarkable than Kai Tak's, but Kai Tak instead preserved a small section of the old runway as a part of a new park. Thanks for sharing.
2:50 "Goodbye Kai Tak, and thank you." When we moved to a new city, that line inspired me to say goodbye to our first house just before leaving and locking the door for the last time: "Goodbye House, and thank you".
At Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in Austin, Texas, USA 🇺🇸, only eight months after the events in this video took place at its Chinese counterpart Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport’s air-traffic control tower, there was a similar party at Austin’s Robert Mueller Municipal Airport’s air-traffic control tower, and, just as happened at Hong Kong Kai Tak’s control tower that night in July 1998, upon dimming out the lights at Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport, ten 🔟 months later one night in May 1999, the exact same thing happened at Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport, and the same final goodbye words were uttered by the ATC manager at Austin-Mueller’s control tower that night in May 1999- just ten 🔟 months after it happened at Hong Kong Kai Tak’s control tower: “Goodbye, Robert Mueller Airport, and thank you.” 😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@airodyssey My heart ❤️ goes out to you! My deepest condolences 💐 for your loss as a result of your move and simultaneously experiencing the permanent closure of a beloved familiar airport, and leaving your old home, as I did with Austin back in 1999! 💔💔💔😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭
2:20 “The last passenger has arrived, the last flight has departed, the runway is silent.... It is now time to turn the lights off, which has safely guided thousands of arriving aircraft...”
and with that Kai Tak is put to bed for the last time. 2:47 "Goodbye Kai Tak and Thank You!" Kai Tak is shutdown and it's IACO Number, Callsign, and IATA LIDS are transferred to Chek Lap Kok Island which is about to open.
Kai Tak's airport was one of the more memorable airports in the world. Mostly for the really hard plane landing. It's a shame that the airport closed in 1998. However, it was probably for the better because Chek Lap Kok's airport is way safer. Thank you for serving millions of people, Kai Tak.
I think it is also a shame that Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in Texas did not possess nearby hilly mountainous terrain and risky approaches and landings (and, in the opposite direction, takeoffs 🛫 and climb-outs!), was a somewhat safer airport, and yet had the same fate and followed Hong Kong Kai Tak ten months later in 1999. 😢😢😢😢
The A320 dates back to 1988, and the A330 dates to 1993! Yet compared to the Boeing 747-200 in its heyday, those two have aged tremendously well! The A320 was ahead of its time by a ginormous longshot. An extremely underrated plane.
@@dododakowski2813 Ok I thought you where talking about som terror plot that never happened. Yes I know. I've landed there twice. Since the landing was so challenging the pilots didn't relax, the landing never became routine and hence there where very few accidents at Kai Tak.
Followed by yet ANOTHER beautiful airport in the beautiful capital city of the U. S. State of Texas- ten months later 😿. Another beautiful airport disappears like Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport on the night of May 22-23, 1999, thousands of miles away across the Pacific, half-way between the two US Coasts, only about 100 💯 miles northwest and inland from the northwestern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Another beautiful airport- this time in the U.S.!- has gone. Goodbye Robert Mueller Airport, and thank you. ❤
The Hong Kong 🇭🇰 International Airport opened on July 6, 1998, the summer of that year, just a year after The Transfer of Sovereignty over Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Handover Ceremony On July 1, 1997.
And also imagine being the last passenger to step off a plane at Austin-Robert Mueller Airport a short ten months after Kai Tak was permanently shut down :’(
Incidentally, similarly, ten months later, 5,000+ miles across the Pacific: “Goodbye Austin Robert Mueller Airport and thank you” Everyone: 👏👏👏👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏👏👏👏
Back in 1988 I was sitting on left side a few rows behind the 747 wing on a late night landing . prior to landing the plane made a sharp left / so steep my ass was on the side of the seat & I can see the plane window practically below me ! then I can hear the wings flex up down - metal flexing sounds - Flash of lights going by 100 + mph then amazing landing.
Kia Tak is shutdown and it's IATA LIDS, Callsign, and ICAO Number have been transferred to Chek Lap Kok Island Airport which is about to open. 2:50 "Good Bye Kai Tak and Thank You!"
In a similar way and fashion, only ten months after the events in Hong Kong: Goodbye austin-robert mueller , welcome austin-bergstrom international airport tx. Welcome mueller district of austin, texas, u.s.
Ten months later, Austin’s Robert Mueller Municipal Airport went the way of Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Airport: Goodby Austin-Mueller Airport, and thank you. As will Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in the U.S. State of Texas! Like Hong Kong 🇭🇰, Austin, Texas will also be a special place in the hearts of many.
I really hope Hung Kung does not go full on commie! A lot of the ethnic people actually escaped mainland China & all that nonsense many decades ago. I do hope the people can be strong enough x. & thank you all for your loyalty over the centuries x.
that *Checkerboard Manoeuvre is far too difficult to perform *Checkerboard Hill is a large hill with an Aviator's checkerboard painted over it designed to guide pilots for a safe landing at Kai Tak Airport (this kind of aviation practice was later redundant and henceforth abolished upon moving to Chek Lap Kok)
VERY SAD that UK GAVE UP HK as the islanders are asking for us to take it back And sad that Kai Tak is no more used to LOVE the white knuckle approach and take offs!😢
Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in the US State of Texas may not have possessed hilly mountainous terrain and dramatic landing 🛬 approaches and (in the opposite direction) the dramatic takeoffs 🛫 and 47-degree angle 📐 turns that skim only a few feet above the rooftops of high-rise buildings that Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport possessed, but Kai Tak Airport’s US counterpart in the State of Texas- Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport- which also had the same fate as Kai Tak Airport the following year in 1999, is another sorely missed airport that holds a special place in many Texans’ hearts and minds, just as Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport holds a special place in the hearts and minds of many Hong Kongers and millions of people around the world. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
Yuzuru Otonashi Its not. The British started constructing Chep Lak Kok starting in the late 80s. The airport was supposed to open by the time the Chinese took over but they were running behind schedule. They were even afraid that the Chinese would stop the project, but they granted Hong Kong one more year to finish the airport.
British dont want to take the money that left for Hong Kong, and they also dont want The chinese to take the money, so they build whatever they could think of before 1997, such a sad day
it took 6 years to plan and 7 to build. not only did they have to build Chek Lap Kok Island and it's airport they had to build Lantau and the expressway, they had to build the Kap Shui Mun Bridge, they had to build the Mu Won Helix, they had to build the Tsing Ma Bridge over the Lantau Straights, they had to build the Kwai Chung Expressway, they had to build the Western Harbor Tunnel, they had to build the train station on the former site of Kai Tak, they had to build tracks for MTR, and they had to build Stone Cutter Bridge all before Chek lap Kok opened in 1998. But it came at a cost The Carbonak Gang hacked the airport on opening day delaying flights, erasing cargo manifest, and shutting the airport down. Then in 1999 Hurricane Sam destroyed the airport, Hong Kong, and the Pearl Delta and shot down China Air 642 which crashed into the airport's Datum Lights. They were over budget, understaffed, and under funded but The Brits and the Chinese got it built and operational NOAA and USGS helped Hong Kong and the Chinese set up the Hong Kong Observatory which houses the Wind Tracer Program, The Pacific Hurricane Center, The Pacific Tsunami Center, and the Pacific Earthquake Center. If any natural disaster hits the Pacific Rim this place will know and sound the alarm.
the extension helped but hackers brought it down on the first day. flights were delayed, cargo was a mess, and then a careless hacker erased the cargo manifest. 572 tons of freight had to be rejected. But that was not the worse that happened that fall Hurricane Sam hit Hong Kong and China Air 642 crashed on Runway 25 L it is still the worse accident to occur at Chek Lap Kok.
It is truly sad, tragic, and heartbreaking 😢💔😭 to see airports like Hong Kong Kai Tak International Airport in Hong Kong 🇭🇰, China 🇨🇳, in 1998 and Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in Austin, Texas, USA 🇺🇸, in 1999 be shut down forever and torn up to be converted into non-aviation infrastructure! 😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭. THIS IS JUST SO HEARTBREAKING!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 It is like the death of a close family member. I feel the EXACT SAME ANGUISH and PROFOUND SUFFERING felt by those who mourn the permanent closure and demise of Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport in China 🇨🇳 and the permanent closure and demise of Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in the US State of Texas! 💔💔💔💔😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I share the anguish and profound sorrow of those who feel sorrow and anguish at the demise of Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport, as I had experienced the VERY SAME THING in Austin, Texas, with Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
You can visit there, it's now the international cruise ship terminal now. And I believe had some tributes monuments to the old airport. When I eas there in 2018 (just has been refurbished and it was almost completely refurbished- I could still see yje runway numbers (RWY 13 )- at the end of the runway from the old airport days from 1998!!!
@HplusG BOY, DO I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL!! At one point in time, back in the 2000s decade, I also thought, “Reopen Austin-Robert Mueller Airport NOW!” So yes, I DO share your anguish and agony at missing a familiar airport that you had grown close with! It’s no different than a death in the family! 😭😭😭😭😭 Unfortunately I’ve never been to Hong Kong myself, but make no mistake, I would have also have felt sorrow, agony, and anguish at seeing Kai Tak Airport be shut down and torn up, too! The same heartache over Kai Tak Airport being shut down and torn up, as I felt over Austin-Mueller Airport having the same fate as Kai Tak! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
How so? It's been congested for so long since the 90s. An expansion would've helped though instead of building a new airport. When Kai Tak closed, a part of Hong Kong died with this airport.
@@scarecrow108productions7 The approach, the approach! Some people who flew in Kai Tak said that they could see people in their living rooms while landing!
@@scarecrow108productions7 Ditto with Austin’s Robert Mueller Municipal Airport and Austin, Texas, itself! When Robert Mueller Airport closed ten months after its Chinese counterpart Kai Tak Airport did, a part of Austin, Texas, U.S.A., died with Hong Kong Kai Tak’s U.S. counterpart in Texas.
@@szewei85 Hate to break it to you, buddy, but in Austin there were also some people who were happy that the much larger Austin Bergstrom International Airport had opened in Robert Mueller Airport’s place, just as Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok International Airport had opened on a reclaimed land island near Downtown Hong Kong, in Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport’s place. ☹️
1:22 isn't the old airport, Kai Tak, that's the new one, Chek Lap Kok. There were still some unfinished bits when it opened, which caused issues, particularly in air cargo.
This is probably the most sorely missed airport in the world, for reasons actually quite removed from aviation. We all know the famously thrilling approach path. But it brings so much nostalgia because it's the last widely used piece of colonial-era infrastructure to pass away into history. Its closure was originally planned ahead of the 1997 handover, a pivotal moment in Hong Kong's history. In a somewhat twisted way, the delay in CLK's opening allowed Hong Kong locals to have a slow, year-long farewell to the colonial era by using Kai Tak to fly or do planespotting for another full year.
Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in the US State of Texas may not have possessed hilly mountainous terrain and dramatic landing 🛬 approaches and (in the opposite direction) the dramatic takeoffs 🛫 and 47-degree angle 📐 turns that skim only a few feet above the rooftops of high-rise buildings that Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport possessed, but Kai Tak Airport’s US counterpart in the State of Texas- Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport- which had the same fate as Kai Tak Airport the following year in 1999, is another sorely missed airport that holds a special place in the hearts and minds of many Austinites, in many Texans’ hearts and minds, just as Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport holds a special place in the hearts and minds of many Hong Kongers and millions of people around the world.
@@lizzie9300 Just read up on that. They saved the Mueller control tower! It certainly looked more remarkable than Kai Tak's, but Kai Tak instead preserved a small section of the old runway as a part of a new park.
Thanks for sharing.
2:50 "Goodbye Kai Tak, and thank you." When we moved to a new city, that line inspired me to say goodbye to our first house just before leaving and locking the door for the last time: "Goodbye House, and thank you".
At Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in Austin, Texas, USA 🇺🇸, only eight months after the events in this video took place at its Chinese counterpart Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport’s air-traffic control tower, there was a similar party at Austin’s Robert Mueller Municipal Airport’s air-traffic control tower, and, just as happened at Hong Kong Kai Tak’s control tower that night in July 1998, upon dimming out the lights at Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport, ten 🔟 months later one night in May 1999, the exact same thing happened at Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport, and the same final goodbye words were uttered by the ATC manager at Austin-Mueller’s control tower that night in May 1999- just ten 🔟 months after it happened at Hong Kong Kai Tak’s control tower: “Goodbye, Robert Mueller Airport, and thank you.” 😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@airodyssey My heart ❤️ goes out to you! My deepest condolences 💐 for your loss as a result of your move and simultaneously experiencing the permanent closure of a beloved familiar airport, and leaving your old home, as I did with Austin back in 1999! 💔💔💔😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭
2:20 “The last passenger has arrived, the last flight has departed, the runway is silent.... It is now time to turn the lights off, which has safely guided thousands of arriving aircraft...”
and with that Kai Tak is put to bed for the last time. 2:47 "Goodbye Kai Tak and Thank You!" Kai Tak is shutdown and it's IACO Number, Callsign, and IATA LIDS are transferred to Chek Lap Kok Island which is about to open.
Goodbye Kai Tak and thank you
Are you the manager of the airport??
It’s so sad
I am not, I'm just repeating the words as said on that mournful evening.
Kai Tak's airport was one of the more memorable airports in the world. Mostly for the really hard plane landing. It's a shame that the airport closed in 1998. However, it was probably for the better because Chek Lap Kok's airport is way safer. Thank you for serving millions of people, Kai Tak.
I think it is also a shame that Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in Texas did not possess nearby hilly mountainous terrain and risky approaches and landings (and, in the opposite direction, takeoffs 🛫 and climb-outs!), was a somewhat safer airport, and yet had the same fate and followed Hong Kong Kai Tak ten months later in 1999. 😢😢😢😢
Wow, that landing of the DragonAirA320, a plane that who knew would be so popular today was just relatively new to people back then.
The A320 dates back to 1988, and the A330 dates to 1993! Yet compared to the Boeing 747-200 in its heyday, those two have aged tremendously well!
The A320 was ahead of its time by a ginormous longshot. An extremely underrated plane.
Fuça rumo
Such a sad day, it also represent a golden ERA of Hong Kong has ended...
Nope.Its good that it closed because we could otherwise have got 9/11 way earlier
Do Dodakowski wheezed-
@@dododakowski2813
What?
@@davskol Have you seen the approaches? This was destined to fail sooner or later. But now fortunatly never.
@@dododakowski2813
Ok I thought you where talking about som terror plot that never happened. Yes I know. I've landed there twice. Since the landing was so challenging the pilots didn't relax, the landing never became routine and hence there where very few accidents at Kai Tak.
Now, Kai Tak lives on in flight simulators as VHHX
"Goodbye Kai Tak and thank you"
Similarly, and incidentally ten months later, 5,000+ miles east across the Pacific:
“Goodbye Austin-Robert Mueller and thank you.” 😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔
R.I.P. Kai Tak Airport 1925-1998
And R.I.P. Robert Mueller Airport in Austin, Texas 1930-1999
0:01 Kai Tak workers and new hong kong airport workers 2:05
XD
They all look both happy and sad in the last clip
A beautiful airport has gone. Goodbye Kai Tak, and thank you. ❤
Followed by yet ANOTHER beautiful airport in the beautiful capital city of the U. S. State of Texas- ten months later 😿. Another beautiful airport disappears like Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport on the night of May 22-23, 1999, thousands of miles away across the Pacific, half-way between the two US Coasts, only about 100 💯 miles northwest and inland from the northwestern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Another beautiful airport- this time in the U.S.!- has gone.
Goodbye Robert Mueller Airport, and thank you. ❤
The Hong Kong 🇭🇰 International Airport opened on July 6, 1998, the summer of that year, just a year after The Transfer of Sovereignty over Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Handover Ceremony On July 1, 1997.
And, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport opened on May 23, 1999, just over two years before the beginning of the 21st Century and 09/11/2001
2:20 ah yes, the mithological Nokia ring tone ..
Omg listen to all those vintage ringtones
imagine being the last passenger to step off a plane at Kai Tak
And also imagine being the last passenger to step off a plane at Austin-Robert Mueller Airport a short ten months after Kai Tak was permanently shut down :’(
"Goodbye Kai Tak and Thank you"
Everyone: *cheers*
No because they're like saying "Thanks for being with us" Something like that
Incidentally, similarly, ten months later, 5,000+ miles across the Pacific:
“Goodbye Austin Robert Mueller Airport and thank you”
Everyone: 👏👏👏👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏👏👏👏
Back in 1988 I was sitting on left side a few rows behind the 747 wing on a late night landing . prior to landing the plane made a sharp left / so steep my ass was on the side of the seat & I can see the plane window practically below me ! then I can hear the wings flex up down - metal flexing sounds - Flash of lights going by 100 + mph then amazing landing.
Sure the last steep turn wasn't actually to the right as the video shows???
2:20
It's been almost 20 years
Such an iconic airport just sad to see it close like i was planning on going there for planespotting
Double Impact the movie shows KAI TAK plane landing shot so beautifully😄😄😆😆
Good bye Kai talk airport you will still be my favorite airport
Kia Tak is shutdown and it's IATA LIDS, Callsign, and ICAO Number have been transferred to Chek Lap Kok Island Airport which is about to open. 2:50 "Good Bye Kai Tak and Thank You!"
Goodbye kai tak , welcome chek lap kok hk international airport. Welcome kai tak cruise terminal.
In a similar way and fashion, only ten months after the events in Hong Kong:
Goodbye austin-robert mueller , welcome austin-bergstrom international airport tx. Welcome mueller district of austin, texas, u.s.
Hong Kong was a better place when it's under Commonwealth.
Goodby Kai Tak and thank you!
Hong Kong will always be a special place in the hearts of many.
Ten months later, Austin’s Robert Mueller Municipal Airport went the way of Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Airport:
Goodby Austin-Mueller Airport, and thank you.
As will Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in the U.S. State of Texas!
Like Hong Kong 🇭🇰, Austin, Texas will also be a special place in the hearts of many.
I really hope Hung Kung does not go full on commie! A lot of the ethnic people actually escaped mainland China & all that nonsense many decades ago. I do hope the people can be strong enough x. & thank you all for your loyalty over the centuries x.
1:52 giant airport with barely any departures, now there is a departure every 5 minutes
😢😢
Traurigster Tag der Luftfahrtgeschichte😢
it would have been to dangerous if kai tak kept operating today.
that *Checkerboard Manoeuvre is far too difficult to perform
*Checkerboard Hill is a large hill with an Aviator's checkerboard painted over it designed to guide pilots for a safe landing at Kai Tak Airport (this kind of aviation practice was later redundant and henceforth abolished upon moving to Chek Lap Kok)
And thats the excact case.
@@dododakowski2813 not only that, but also due to increasing traffic congestion.
0:01 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
why people so happy ?
VERY SAD that UK GAVE UP HK as the islanders are asking for us to take it back
And sad that Kai Tak is no more used to LOVE the white knuckle approach and take offs!😢
I'm in this little small Hong Kong contry
Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in the US State of Texas may not have possessed hilly mountainous terrain and dramatic landing 🛬 approaches and (in the opposite direction) the dramatic takeoffs 🛫 and 47-degree angle 📐 turns that skim only a few feet above the rooftops of high-rise buildings that Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport possessed, but Kai Tak Airport’s US counterpart in the State of Texas- Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport- which also had the same fate as Kai Tak Airport the following year in 1999, is another sorely missed airport that holds a special place in many Texans’ hearts and minds, just as Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport holds a special place in the hearts and minds of many Hong Kongers and millions of people around the world. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
why are you spamming your anguish amongst the comments though
Hong Kong was transferred to the People's Republic of China in 1997 and Kai Tak was closed in 1998.
coincidence? nah.
Yuzuru Otonashi Its not. The British started constructing Chep Lak Kok starting in the late 80s. The airport was supposed to open by the time the Chinese took over but they were running behind schedule. They were even afraid that the Chinese would stop the project, but they granted Hong Kong one more year to finish the airport.
British dont want to take the money that left for Hong Kong, and they also dont want The chinese to take the money, so they build whatever they could think of before 1997, such a sad day
You think it takes just one year to plan and construct a brand new airport?
it took 6 years to plan and 7 to build. not only did they have to build Chek Lap Kok Island and it's airport they had to build Lantau and the expressway, they had to build the Kap Shui Mun Bridge, they had to build the Mu Won Helix, they had to build the Tsing Ma Bridge over the Lantau Straights, they had to build the Kwai Chung Expressway, they had to build the Western Harbor Tunnel, they had to build the train station on the former site of Kai Tak, they had to build tracks for MTR, and they had to build Stone Cutter Bridge all before Chek lap Kok opened in 1998. But it came at a cost The Carbonak Gang hacked the airport on opening day delaying flights, erasing cargo manifest, and shutting the airport down. Then in 1999 Hurricane Sam destroyed the airport, Hong Kong, and the Pearl Delta and shot down China Air 642 which crashed into the airport's Datum Lights. They were over budget, understaffed, and under funded but The Brits and the Chinese got it built and operational NOAA and USGS helped Hong Kong and the Chinese set up the Hong Kong Observatory which houses the Wind Tracer Program, The Pacific Hurricane Center, The Pacific Tsunami Center, and the Pacific Earthquake Center. If any natural disaster hits the Pacific Rim this place will know and sound the alarm.
the extension helped but hackers brought it down on the first day. flights were delayed, cargo was a mess, and then a careless hacker erased the cargo manifest. 572 tons of freight had to be rejected. But that was not the worse that happened that fall Hurricane Sam hit Hong Kong and China Air 642 crashed on Runway 25 L it is still the worse accident to occur at Chek Lap Kok.
no I'm not crying you're the one crying
I’m crying too! In TEARS! 😭
KAI TAK 1:17am
It is truly sad, tragic, and heartbreaking 😢💔😭 to see airports like Hong Kong Kai Tak International Airport in Hong Kong 🇭🇰, China 🇨🇳, in 1998 and Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in Austin, Texas, USA 🇺🇸, in 1999 be shut down forever and torn up to be converted into non-aviation infrastructure! 😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭. THIS IS JUST SO HEARTBREAKING!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
It is like the death of a close family member. I feel the EXACT SAME ANGUISH and PROFOUND SUFFERING felt by those who mourn the permanent closure and demise of Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport in China 🇨🇳 and the permanent closure and demise of Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport in the US State of Texas! 💔💔💔💔😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I share the anguish and profound sorrow of those who feel sorrow and anguish at the demise of Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport, as I had experienced the VERY SAME THING in Austin, Texas, with Austin Robert Mueller Municipal Airport! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
Reopen Kai Tak immediately!
You can visit there, it's now the international cruise ship terminal now.
And I believe had some tributes monuments to the old airport.
When I eas there in 2018 (just has been refurbished and it was almost completely refurbished- I could still see yje runway numbers (RWY 13 )- at the end of the runway from the old airport days from 1998!!!
@HplusG BOY, DO I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL!! At one point in time, back in the 2000s decade, I also thought, “Reopen Austin-Robert Mueller Airport NOW!”
So yes, I DO share your anguish and agony at missing a familiar airport that you had grown close with! It’s no different than a death in the family! 😭😭😭😭😭
Unfortunately I’ve never been to Hong Kong myself, but make no mistake, I would have also have felt sorrow, agony, and anguish at seeing Kai Tak Airport be shut down and torn up, too! The same heartache over Kai Tak Airport being shut down and torn up, as I felt over Austin-Mueller Airport having the same fate as Kai Tak! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
How do you reopen an airport with no runway and apartments all over it and a stadium
0.35, is that an Emirates 777?
Ethan yes
Ethan
:(
I saw a Japan Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-11 at Hong Kong Kai Tak that night
Yes
Ahhh old HK.....
all good things have to come to an end :)
It’s HEARTBREAKING 💔 when things come to a close/come to an end!
This is just so heartbreaking, 💔, and it just keeps getting MORE heartbreaking 💔! 😭😭😭😭😭😭
thanks kaitak ✈️😍(泣) fromTokyo
Yep- that was a frigging amazing intro for ANY MOVIE...
saya datang dari koii
Now let's dump communism and re-open Kai Tak for trade with the free world!!
How so? It's been congested for so long since the 90s. An expansion would've helped though instead of building a new airport.
When Kai Tak closed, a part of Hong Kong died with this airport.
@@scarecrow108productions7 The approach, the approach! Some people who flew in Kai Tak said that they could see people in their living rooms while landing!
@@scarecrow108productions7 Ditto with Austin’s Robert Mueller Municipal Airport and Austin, Texas, itself!
When Robert Mueller Airport closed ten months after its Chinese counterpart Kai Tak Airport did, a part of Austin, Texas, U.S.A., died with Hong Kong Kai Tak’s U.S. counterpart in Texas.
Why they are happy ? :(
Happy 2 be in bigger and safer airport
PS : i just finished HK vacation yesterday and man its exactly the same vibe as seen in TVB dramas hahahaha
@@szewei85 nah thx i prefer tokyo, i go in december
@@szewei85 Hate to break it to you, buddy, but in Austin there were also some people who were happy that the much larger Austin Bergstrom International Airport had opened in Robert Mueller Airport’s place, just as Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok International Airport had opened on a reclaimed land island near Downtown Hong Kong, in Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport’s place. ☹️
@@lizzie9300 haha cool
no wonder airplains crash in asia.
Airplanes* learn how to spell.
有陳方安生和曾蔭權，好懷念那時候的香港啊！！！可惜，馬上警棍要掌權港首了，歎…
all are drunk
why the hell they are wasting water and energy to clean airport while it's closed
hi five they’re cleaning the new airport in preparation for its opening, you dumbarse.
1:22 isn't the old airport, Kai Tak, that's the new one, Chek Lap Kok. There were still some unfinished bits when it opened, which caused issues, particularly in air cargo.
@@straightpipediesel that is the new airport
Haha and i just finished HK vacation yesterday and i see CLK is also expanding which is way better lets call this the phase 2 refreshing hahahaha