This sad incident reminded me of a similar crash by a Mandarin Airlines MD-11 (I think it was) at Chek Lap Kok Airport a few years ago. The area was being lashed by a nearby typhoon and the plane flipped onto its back on landing. Miraculously only about 3 people died in a plane that had a significant passenger load. A friend of mine was a flight attendant on the flight that landed before the MD-11 and witnessed the crash. He said the winds were pretty fierce with the Qantas plane being the last to arrive before the airport was shut due to the weather.
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