I had a quick Google and it turns out that that particular airframe is fairly historic:
Cathay Pacific | Boeing 747-400 | B-HUJ | Hong Kong Kai Tak by Dennis Lau, on Flickr
“July 4th 1998… approx. 14:00 local time
B-HUJ departs Kai Tak for the final time, operating CATHAY 888 to Vancouver and New York. The return flight to HK was the first commercial flight to land at Chek Lap Kok on opening day, just after 06:30 on July 6th.
The return flight made history by becoming the first ever non-stop flight between New York and Hong Kong, flying over the North Pole with an appropriate callsign of CATHAY POLAR 1.”
Here’s the same aircraft on its farewell flyby at Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.
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