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Just found another video on Subang Terminal 1 in the late 1990's but the video quality is quite bad...The interior is not that bad from the video, I was still wondering why they demolish the good looking T1

 

 

 

start from 5:48 (arrival area)

 

 

I think terminal 1 was demolished in 2003

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=20030212&id=xaktAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8XoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6149,700526&hl=en

Edited by Conor

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Just found another video on Subang Terminal 1 in the late 1990's but the video quality is quite bad...The interior is not that bad from the video, I was still wondering why they demolish the good looking T1

 

 

 

start from 5:48 (arrival area)

 

 

I think terminal 1 was demolished in 2003

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=20030212&id=xaktAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8XoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6149,700526&hl=en

Probably to remove any doubt that SZB could ever be used as major gateway again?

 

From the article it was also around that time all MH 737 SZB and all AK ops were reverted back to KUL. Funny to think what might have happened if AK insisted that they would stay in SZB, possibly occupying T1.

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Probably to remove any doubt that SZB could ever be used as major gateway again?

 

From the article it was also around that time all MH 737 SZB and all AK ops were reverted back to KUL. Funny to think what might have happened if AK insisted that they would stay in SZB, possibly occupying T1.

Klia was dr m's pet project, he did whatever necessary to ensure klia to be successful.

 

SZb T1 was a valuable real estate. Hence, demolished and leased.

 

If ak was allowed to operate from SZb, most if not all foreign airline would request to use SZb instead.

Edited by KK Lee

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T1 was demolished originally to build a convention centre which also has a wide apron right in front of it. That plan eventually fell through.

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The convention centre should have been a gutted and re-configuration of the old Terminal 1 building...

 

Pulling it down was and is still today a travesty for historical preservation. Would love for someone to dig up the old plans and reconstruct the original terminal building as it was at its inaugural sans windows and with the spiral staircase and majestic ramp onto the apron...

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The convention centre should have been a gutted and re-configuration of the old Terminal 1 building...

 

Pulling it down was and is still today a travesty for historical preservation. Would love for someone to dig up the old plans and reconstruct the original terminal building as it was at its inaugural sans windows and with the spiral staircase and majestic ramp onto the apron...

Yes, we do not really have a good sense for history - politicians seem to rewrite history for their own convenience and benefit. So to have a permanent definitive record may not be in their best interests!

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Very nice video! Flee. Thanks for sharing

 

 

Last week I went to the former site of T1 where the current spirit system building is located.. BTW , I stumbled across this old half demolished fencing and an old building which has been repainted.. Are those fencing and that building used to be together with T1? and I saw a half demolished and abandoned road too infront of the grey building which I believe used to be an old access road to T1... There is a notice on the gate and it says that building belongs to YTL hangar... YTL have an airline??

 

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Man, I am so happy today because I found this beautiful photo on google ... I guess It was taken in the mid eighties by judging the cars design... Unfortunately I was not even born yet during that time... I wonder such a huge building where does all the demolished debris and rubble goes? I remember one of the existing aerobridge from T1 was relocated to an airport at Sbah.....

 

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I remember near the airport hotel was a really good Pakistani restaurant called Shiraz. Used to go there with my parents now and again. One of the best butter chicken and dhal I've had ... And really nice pilau rice too. Would be a real treat for me cos I could do plane spotting then go have an awesome meal there

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Ron Pratt, the site architect for Subang Airport, was in Kuala Lumpur in 1998 and this is an excerpt from an article in the New Straits Times:

 

Female Malaysian Chinese workforce would have to walk over 8km a day transporting half a tonne of concrete in the scorching heat.

The most memorable day for Pratt was when they were going to strike the first of 60 inter-connected shell roofs in early June 1964. The hyperbolic paraboloid shells were considered to be the natural structural solution to the design of the main terminal building which was conceived as a large, open volume rather than an enclosed building.

"At 3am on that day, Hans Goldstein, the engineer, calls me and says, 'Ron, I'm scared'."

To strike each of the shells, formwork around each of the shells was to be removed uniformly to avoid uneven stress, which may have cracked the shells.

"All of a sudden, you hear a loud crack as the formwork released itself simultaneously from all around the shells. There were great cheers all around and this happened for all the 60 shells."

The airport was built during 'Konfrontasi' (a military stand-off between Malaysia and Indonesia) and the airport was an especially high-profile project.

"On one occasion, we were about to leave the site at the end of the day when we were told that a group of Indonesian soldiers had taken possession of the Federal Highway. We had to convoy with a couple of Bren gun carriers into town but nothing actually happened to us," says Pratt.

 

 

Source : http://www.tslr.net/2007/10/remember-subang-airport.html

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I remember near the airport hotel was a really good Pakistani restaurant called Shiraz. Used to go there with my parents now and again. One of the best butter chicken and dhal I've had ... And really nice pilau rice too. Would be a real treat for me cos I could do plane spotting then go have an awesome meal there

Shiraz served the best beriani rice those days in my opinion. Its first outlet was at Medan Tuanku since the 1970s. Pity they are no longer operating. The nearest copy of their beriani is Restoran Pakiza at Seksyen 14 PJ.

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Man, I am so happy today because I found this beautiful photo on google ... I guess It was taken in the mid eighties by judging the cars design... Unfortunately I was not even born yet during that time... I wonder such a huge building where does all the demolished debris and rubble goes? I remember one of the existing aerobridge from T1 was relocated to an airport at Sbah.....

 

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Yes the building in the background is the Subang Airport hotel connected to the Main Terminal via a bridge, which can be seen in the photo. Ahh... brought back some good old memory. I was still a kid back then.

 

Yes two of the aerobridges from T1 were sent over to Sandakan in the east coast of Sabah. Others, not too sure what happened to them.

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I remembered this plane viewing balcony too. I remembered the walkway as a child and not sure about the rotunda thing in the middle. When aerobridge was built, the ramps were taken off, except the bit where they still used for fokker flights (towards the Terminal 2 end)? The viewing gallery was kept and remained open for public viewing until security was tightened in 1990s. Patrons to the airport were not allowed to enter the viewing balcony area.

Edited by S V Choong

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Had chicken rice at that hotel one evening before departing back to Perth on QF via SIN.. Despite the old look, it was nice inside from what I remember.

 

If I remember correctly, they extended the window out to the railing? The KFC Used to have the "best views" of the apron and touchdown zone for RW33.

 

There was one balcony where you could still go out into and that was at the southern end of the terminal.. Not much of a view except the fuel base and adjoining railway line. You could see the aircraft on finals for RW33.

 

Inside, you had to be at a gate for a decent view. Gates 14A and 14B (IIRC) for the buses to the Cargo ramp, very common from 1995 onwards, especially with the expanded MAS fleet including A330s. Many hours spent whiling away at the MAS airside office, where UMs would sit and wait for their escorts to the flight.... Similar room in Changi. There was no ban on smoking back then, either.

 

For arrivals, after the curvy-beige plastic moulded immigration counters, with the black rubberised trimming, you make your way to all of three or four conveyor belts, and finally those stainless steel trapezoid customs inspections before entering the "basement" meeting point. If you were waiting for someone, you could stand on the metal railing, which had a pattern similar to the MAS Wau bulan, albeit in straight aluminium tubing, and peer inside waving at your family/friends. I remember my dad would see us, wave for our attention, before he ran to the carpark to get the car and brought it around to the arrivals driveway, usually perfectly timed for when we came out of the arrivals hall. Then it was off to Jalan Gasing Restoran Satellite for the immediate chicken rice fix!! 😝

 

Although the history was destroyed, the memories never can be!

 

On aerobridges, gate 1 had the honour of being installed with the all-glass bridges ahead of KLIA.

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The best place for spotting back in those days were the seafood restaurants after the AIROD building, further up the road.

 

If Runway 15 was in use, you were literally within a stone's throw distance from aircraft taxiing for the holding point of Runway 15. And you had a clear view of aircraft on approach and touchdown.

 

The view was less spectacular if Runway 33 was in use. Most landing aircraft would have vacated at the first intersection (near AIROD and Terminal 3) after landing and you wouldn't get to see much of anything. But some of the heavies (and the occasional 737 that floated) would take the second intersection, which is smack where the seafood restaurants were. Nothing like a 747's engines pointing at you with landing lights still on while you're having dinner in the open air.

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I really like to old terminal (pre-renovation) open concept design. I can still remember vividly the spiral ramps with tactile rubber flooring, the sphere shaped clocks on the column and of course the unobstructed viewing gallery at the balcony. I always got excited when stepped from the car at the open air carpark as I can already hear the noise from the roaring jet engine on the tarmac.

 

Post renovation, there were glass panels erected on the roof of the extension part along the balcony preventing people from climbing over the balcony and walk into airside / tarmac area via the extension part rooftop. Glass windows were also installed on the outside of the entire terminal building for air conditioning purpose. Later, the access doors to the balcony were even locked to the public. Hence public could only view the actions on the tarmac (and runway) from KFC (or A&W ?) thru the glass windows before the balcony. We used to do our homework revision aka plane spotting at KFC (or A&W ?) regularly instead of going to library during our Uni days :D

 

As for the seafood restaurant at the end of runway 15, we also visited there regularly for supper. We often ordered a plate of Hokkien fried noodle and a pot of tea and sit there for a couple of hours !

 

Talking about the road adjacent to Runway 15, it was realigned once and becomes further away from the runway at the end of Rwy 15 under the runway extension to cater for B747-400.

Edited by Kee Hooi Yen

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I remember the open air viewing deck fondly. Watched when the Air France Concorde came for a visit. Amazing fly past at high speed. It was around '89 I think...

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I remember the open air viewing deck fondly. Watched when the Air France Concorde came for a visit. Amazing fly past at high speed. It was around '89 I think...

 

Hope the glass were still intact after the fly past. :D

 

Thanks for sharing, the DC-10-30 sure brings back some fond memories.

 

MH33, where was the flight originated from? I know during those days MH26/27 was KUL-BNE-AKL route, which I frequented.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUP9OYSKjfk

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MH33 may have been from Hong Kong or Seoul?

 

 

Not HK as far as I know. MH60/61 (HKG-BKI-KUL) on A300.

 

May be Seoul or NRT

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