From Wiki on China Air flight 605:There were 22 minor injuries among passengers or crew, but the plane was written off as a total hull loss. The vertical stabilizer on the plane interfered with the accuracy of the ILS signals for runway 31, so it was removed with dynamite shortly after the crash. That permitted airliners to make safe ILS approaches whenever the wind patterns mandated the use of runway 31 (the reciprocal direction of runway 13).[3] After the accident, the aircraft was stored by the HAECO building to be used for firefighting practice.
No video, but AirDisaster has some pics of the aftermath.
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I was wrong about it being an Airbus - ignorance fought.
Did pilots need any special qualifications to fly to and from that airport?
I was a passenger on a few of those. It was crazy. It would have been interesting to be in one of those offices and watch the planes come in too.
I’m glad I don’t have to design that approach plate they showed. I’ve never seen anything like that before.
I’ve been trying, unsuccessfully, to find video of landing in Berlin in '48 during the airlift.
But I find mostly candy bombers.
Oh if only all bombers were candy bombers.
Get a DVD of “The Big Lift” with Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas. It has all the footage you’d want of C-54’s landing at Tempelhof.
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Very glad that the flights with fuel drums didn’t crash and burn in the city areas … that would have been horrid.
Personally, I’d love to shoot an approach like that… in a helicopter! 