Aug '95 - last CX flight from Seoul to HK on a Friday night. Typhoon 8 with strong winds, producing very difficult landing conditions. Ours was among the last (if not the last) to land. Three attempts from the West over the buildings. We reached 500 - 1,000 ft each time only for the pilot to be forced to abort. On the third, it seemed for a moment that we were were not getting back-up. We circled for about 15 minutes and (apparently) as there was no where else to go for the time being the pilot tried one more time, this time from the East. He put that sucker down with emphasis.
Afterwards, I shared a taxi to our building with a member of the cockpit crew. When he very eagerly joined me for a stiff scotch at home ("I don't ever want to go through that again!", he said), then I knew it had been a bad experience.
[ 23 July 2001: Message edited by: man in black ]