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I suggest others do the same and get this story right. I highly doubt we will see it published as its accurate, unlike Simon Parry's normal garbage.
"Once again your article regarding aviation in Hong Kong was way off the mark and failed to address the incident in anything
other than alarmist. This is the second time a Hong Kong Airlines aircraft has endangered lives in the past 2 years simply trying to
taxi at HKIA. Should the article not have reflected that? Or the questionably safety record of HKA, or even perhaps how the alert Cathay
Pacific crew averted disaster? Quoting individuals at the Hong Kong CAD saying there is no danger is both misleading and false.
There was very real danger. The wings of the departing aircraft extend over the runway onto the taxiway which the Hong Kong Airlines jet
was wrongly on. There would have been definite contact and there would have been definite loss of life. In 1977 two passenger jets struck
each other in Tenerife and killed 583 people. We came within seconds of that last week here in Hong Kong, for no other reason than the pilots of Hong Kong Airlines being unable to listen to a taxi clearance in English and understand a simple taxi chart. How much longer will the lack of safety and basic airmanship be allowed to endanger the Hong Kong public."
Last edited by AAIGUY; 28th Jan 2010 at 09:30.