Touching moment as an era ends

1998-07-08T00:00:00

Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport's northerly approach, which requires a spectacular banking turn around the infamous "chequerboard" in typically tricky crosswinds, was more than a handful for the pilot of a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 747-400 which scraped an outer engine on landing in late June and an Indian Airlines 747. ...

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