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A British Airways pilot had refused to make the approach to Kai Tak runway 13 minutes before the CAL 605 captain decided to attempt it. Flight 605 touched down more than 2,100 feet (640 m) past the runway 's displaced threshold , at a speed of 150 knots (278 km/h; 173 mph), following an IGS runway 13 approach.
On 7 February 1980, a China Airlines Boeing 747-200 B-1866 (later B-18255) had a tail-strike incident while landing at Kai Tak International Airport en route to Taipei from Stockholm Arlanda Airport via King Abdulaziz International Airport and Kai Tak.
23 wrz 1994 · Four minutes after takeoff from Guangzhou-Baiyun Airport, while climbing, the twin engine airplane went out of control and crashed few km from the airport. All eight occupants were killed, five French citizens and three Chinese.
20 wrz 2022 · When a transport plane crashed into Victoria Harbour after take-off from Hong Kong’s then Kai Tak Airport in 1994, rescuers fought in vain to save the lives of six of the Indonesian crew –...
4 lis 2023 · The pilot of a China Airlines jumbo jet on Thursday night blamed vicious crosswinds for causing the airliner with 296 people on board to overrun the Kai Tak runway and skid into Victoria...
4 lis 2022 · On November 4th, 1993, China Airlines Flight 605 was carrying 374 passengers and 22 crew members on a 75-minute flight from then Taipei Chiang Kai-shek International Airport (TPE, now Taoyuan International) to Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport (HKG), using a brand-new Boeing 747-400.
On December 29, 1991, China Airlines Flight 358, a 747-200F, crashed shortly after takeoff from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taipei, Taiwan, killing all five crewmembers, when the number-three and number-four engines (both right engines) detached from the aircraft.
