Soon after Chep Lap Kok opened in Hong Kong they were suffering the after effects of a typhoon. The crosswind on the single runway were out of sensible limits and aircraft were diverting all over the place. Not so for a China Airlines (Taipei) captain who decided that, even though he had deliberately loaded sufficient fuel to continue to Taipei if necessary, decided to land.
Technically he was within the max landing weight and crosswind component but the turbulent wind coming over the hill south of the airfield caused him to lose it on late finals.
The aircraft struck wing first and rolled over and came to rest on its back with 315 passengers and crew. After it had come to rest only three of the passengers had been killed.
What was not recorded in the accident reports were the cabin crew screaming at the passengers NOT to release their seat belts whist they were hanging upside down.
This quick thinking most certainly saved many lives