How A Tiny Nudge Put A Jumbo Jet In The Ocean | China Airlines 605

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This is the story of china airlines flight 605, on the 4th of november 1993 a china airlines 747 was making the trip from taiwans chiyang kai shek airport to hong kongs kai tak airport. That destination airport was one of the most dangerous airports in the world at the time, the approach to its runways was anything but simple.for most approaches you line up with the runway quite early but not at kai tak. At kai tak you fly towards a mountain and then you line up with the runway very very late banking over the buildings of hong kong as you did so. It didnt matter how big or small your plane was, this is how you landed at kai tak. This unusual approach gave us some truly breathtaking images of 747s banking low to the ground barely as they turned to line up with the runways. Too bad the airport has been decommissioned ,I would have loved to have seen that. But then again as we are about to see this airport took a toll on the pilots that flew there so maybe it's not such a bad thing that it was closed down.
But on the 4th of november that challenging approach would be made even more challengin by the fact that storm Ira would be nearning taiwan. china airlines flight 605 takes off from taiwans chainyang kai shek international airport bound for hong kong with 274 passengers on board. Quite interesting that they were able to operate a 747 on such a short flight that was only 75 minutes long.
Takeoff and cruise were uneventful and with the challenging approach coming up the pilots started preparing for the landing. One thing of concern were the crosswinds that were active at the time they werent sure that theyd be able to get the plane on the runway so they took some extra time to go through the go around procedures. As the plane flew towards hong kong the pilots got a weather report from hong kong. It looked like theyd indeed be needing the go around procedure, winds were strong it was raining and there was windshear. The pilots turned on the planes weather radar to get a sense of what to expect, they could see clouds near the airport but none at the airport itself.
Soon the pilots were on the localiser beam for runway 13, and the pilots were in contact with hong kong tower. Tower had some bad news the winds had picked up and the visibility had dropped to 5 km or 3 miles. As they got this information an MD82 landed and flight 605 was next. Winds were at 25 knots and the pilots were told to expect wind shear as they turned to line up with the runway. The pilots configured the plane as turbulence buffeted the 747. At 1100 feet the pilot disengaged the autopilot and the took manual control of the plane. Shortly after that he disconnected the autothrottle as well, he flew the approach with his right hand on the throttles and his left hand on the yoke.
As the captain put the 747 into the right hand turn to line up with runway 13 he got windshear alerts, which were followed up by glideslope warnings. Which meant that the plane was deviating away from the prescribed glideslope. They were also straying from their target speed of 153 knots, something that the first officer immediately noticed. At the end of the turn one thing was clear: the plane was much lower than it should be. But the pilots corrected for that, the jumbo jet touched down on the runway with in the touchdown zone. It kicked up quite a bit of spray from the wet runway as it touched down. In the tower people were watching the surface radar track of flight 605, it was carrying way too much speed.