wrote:

I was a passenger into there twice. I can't recall the second one
but I do recall that on the first one (747) I was looking out of the
right hand window onto a skyscraper's balcony at a woman
hanging out her washing. She was very close. (A few hundred feet?)
The aircraft was banked quite steeply to the right at this time.

On the left there was a mountain. A big mountain.

The first time I flew in, I have to admit I was wondering if I was
going to end up in a big ball of aluminum. From then on (I used to
fly into HK fairly often), I'd look around for those who hadn't ever
landed there before to see what someone looks like when they're about
to die. ;-)

It IS disconcerting to look UP at apartment buildings whizzing by the
wingtips, isn't it?

Mark "white knuckle airlines" Hickey