Arfur Dent
...Aye ..... got more than one of those T-shirts.
Turned onto the IGS one night in a typhoon, with a wind at 4,500 FEET straight off the mountains at over 80kts, From memory we went around well before 2,500 feet and wrestled the beast around the corner and through the gap, diverted to TPE, sat waiting for a stand for 4 hours (never before or since have I seen so many wide-bodies), got on stand and two hours later the pax were allowed into the departure lounge where they sat till the next morning some 7/8 or so hours later. We sat in a little mini bus for about an hour and half to something like a bed and breakfast, shared rooms, no change of clothes or wash kit (couldn't get baggage off the aircraft), had about 4-5 hours sleep and then back to the airport. Smelly flight back to HKG. Ehm where days !!!