Cathay Pacific film – company history and landing at Kai Tak airport

HF: This film, titled Kai Tak Airport – the Final Approach, is a production of Cathay Pacific Airways Corporate Coomunications Department.

It covers:
A brief history of Kai Tak
The history of Cathay Pacific
CP’s two founders, American, Roy C Farrell and Australian, Sydney H de Kantzow
Butterfield & Swire’s involvement
Links to the HK Aircraft Engineering Company (HAECO)
P&O’s involvement
Absorption of HK Airways
Details of the growth of CP’s aircraft fleet

And ends with footage of the famous approach  and landing at Kai Tak. If you wish to jump to this it starts at 13.30.

 

 

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