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Dangers to Society by 'Well Funded Bad Engineering'?

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The Kai Tak Airport is a prime example of the dangers to life that 'Well Funded Bad Engineering' poses to the world. If a loaded Airbus with 500 people is expected to land in an Airport within a City, someone should have missed the essence of 'Safety in Engineering'. The greater question arises, as to where such efforts are getting their fundings..???


Seriously, how many engineers in this world could agree to the acceptability of this over-imposed dangers in flying?? (And what if someone paid you twice the rent.. should that help?)..

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/kai-tak-skyscraper-airside/index.html

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    I understood that Kai Tak has been phased out of general use from 1997, and work on the current Hong Kong International had been begun when it had already been apparent that  landing ever bigger planes in a small densely populated area was not going to work.

    Originally  Kai Tak was just an airstrip that had been fine when built in 1925, and had been kept going, and lasted well  in the time of  propeller and then turbo prop machines, and then small jets, but could not reasonably be scaled up  for large jet airliners that need kilometres of approach. I agree that the geography and politics of Hong Kong probably conspired to delay the current airport rather more than would have perhaps occurred  elsewhere, the first plans being drawn up in the 1970s, but construction not started in earnest until more like 1990.

    However, it is not as you imply that someone was paid to  place Kai Tak in the 1920s, knowing in advance that 50 years later larger planes would be developed that would then make it an unsuitable location.


    Mike.

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