WORLD'S 8 MOST TERRIFYING AIRPORTS
1. Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport, Saba Island Airport, Caribbean
This beautiful honeymoon destination has one fault… the airport runway. It’s one of the shortest in the world, is surrounded by sea at both ends and boasts slippery mountains on one side.
2. Matekane Air Strip, Africa
What’s more exciting than a short runway followed by a deathly drop? Pretty much nothing. This air strip in Lesotho means pilots have to drop off the edge of the cliff and then fly. Oh and just in case that wasn’t enough of a challenge, there are some nice high mountains straight afterwards.Take off and landing both are just tough tasks for the pilot on this risky runway.
3. Princess Juliana International Airport , Eastern Caribbean
Princess Juliana International Airport is second busiest airport in the Eastern Caribbean. It is named after Juliana of the Netherlands, who as a crown princess landed here in 1944. The airport has a very short landing strip of about 2,180 metres that has made it quite famous. Due to short landing strip, the planes have to approach the island flying extremely low. Various photos of jets flying at 10–20 meters or 30-60 feet above the island have been considered fake but they are real.
4.Madeira Airport, Madeira Island,Portugal
Located on the island of Madeira (Portugal), this international airport has a short runway (just 1,400 meters before it was doubled in 2003) and is surrounded by ocean from the one side and high mountains from another. The new-built part of the airport is situated on a series of 180 columns, each about 70 m tall.
5. Courchevel Airport, France
This airport is located in,
Courchevel , a ski area in the French Alps. The airport has a very short runway of only 525 m (1,722 ft) and a gradient of 18.5%! The runway has no instrument approach procedures, thus making landing in fog and low clouds almost impossible.
6. Kansai International Airport , Osaka Japan
Kansai International Airport is built on an artificial island which is 2.5 miles long and 1.6 miles wide. It is so large that it can been seen from space. Stewart Schreckengast who is a professor of aviation technology at Purdue University and a former aviation consultant with MITRE, said that this airport might be underwater in 50 years or more because of the climate changes and rising sea levels due to global warming.
7. Barra Airport, Scotland
Barra Airport is the only airport in the world where planes have to land on the beach. It is situated on a wide beach in
Barra Island, Scotland. The airport is literally washed away by the tide once a day.The airport is unique, being the only one in the world where scheduled flights use a beach as the runway.At high tide these runways are under the sea: flight times vary with the tide. Emergency flights occasionally operate at night from the airport, with vehicle lights used to illuminate the runway and reflective strips laid on to the beach.
8. Lukla Airport or Tenzing-Hillary Airport , Nepal
Lukla Airport is a small airport in the Town of
Lukla in eastern Nepal. The airport is at an elevation of 2900 meters and it is quite popular as it has a huge mountain on one end and a 1000 meter drop on the other. In 2008, it was renamed in the honor of Sir Edmund Hillary who was the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.This tiny airport is nestled on the top of a mountain, and has a very casual 9,000 feet plunge at the end of its runway. Oh, and in case that wasn’t bad enough, it’s only a tenth of the length of a standard runway.
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