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Here are more photos of the new market: https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/photos/in-pictures-t...

Reminds me of when Hong Kong's crazy dangerous Kai Tak airport closed and in one night they drove everything to the new airport https://www.checkerboardhill.com/2016/12/closure-of-kai-tak-...




Landing in Kai Tak was immense fun (probably not if flying scares you shitless).

If the plane would have been a little slower you could have checked out what's on TV in the living rooms of the high rises during touch-down.

Crazy dangerous is a bit of an exaggeration[1]. That said: Due to the layout (the runway running directly into the harbour) and it's location in the middle of the city it was a challenging airport for pilots to operate.

Additional specific training was required for pilots to take off and land in Kai Tak.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Tak_Airport#Incidents_and_...

EDIT : Clarification


Munich did that too in 1992. Never seen that many trucks before.


That's what I thought of too! Saw this very fascinating but all too brief mention of the move in this old documentary: https://youtu.be/DVntiGI7QzU?t=2235




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