Kai Tak, 31 August, 1988

I originally wanted to include more renditions of the base image used for this series.

I had notions of using simple stick figures to express how matter of fact in the immediate the struggle to escape a burning plane became, as well as identifying some of the objects that prompted further stories about the crash.

In the end, though, I used only six iterations and a bunch of ‘curatorial’ elements as below

My recollections of the chat with the authorities post incident

The official crash report published in 1990. There was fudging