FIFTEEEN years after it was closed pictures by a British teacher show the calamity Hong Kong airport that was closed for being too dangerous. From ditching in the water to crashing through television aerials the images show the perils pilots faced when having to wing their way through residential tower blocks when attempting to land at the infamous Kai Tak 11,000-foot-long airport. Pictures also show how the tower blocks have boomed in size since the closure of the airport, which previously restricted their height. First built by the British in 1925 by the time it was closed by the Hong Kong government in 1998, it had suffered a shocking 12 air disasters with 270 people killed during this time - yet was handling nearly 30 million passengers per-year by 1996. Teacher Daryl Scott Chapman, 41, originally from Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire and who has lived in Hong Kong since he was 16-years-old took the pictures from 1992 to 1998
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
THE CRAZE for mimicking the video game Streetfighter has spread to the streets of London .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner .
A little clownfish opens its mouth to reveal a blood sucking intruder living on its tongue .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
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A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .
SITTING on a burning sofa unable to move, one man turns his terrifying dreams into reality .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .