Hong Kong Airlines B737-800 tries to take off from Taxiway in HKG
This needs a new thread so everyone can see it.
Public safety is literally at risk at this point
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It would seem this past weekend, an HKA plane doing a early morning departure from HKIA to Korea mistook the taxi way as the runway, and attempted take off
They got about 500 meters down the taxiway prior to stopping with ATC yelling at them they were indeed NOT on the runway.
(thank go for ground radar in HKG).
Since then, a memo has been circulated internally stressing the importance of "ensuring you are on a runway,prior to takeoff".
The Captain, is from down south, around the same area as those Singaporeans who did the same thing in TPE, with more fatal results.
FO, South America.
CLOWNS. The whole lot.
Last edited by AAIGUY; 17th Sep 2008 at 02:07.