The Dangerous Airport

Take Off and Landing is the most dangerous process for the aircraft. Since the airport was built and prepared to reduce the risk that occur during take off and landing it. In this list there are seven possible airport you should avoid in your holiday may not increase again in the future.

7. Lukla Airport - Nepal 

High mountain on one side and drop thousands of feet on the other side. This airport is situated at an altitude of 2900 meters above sea level, so there is hardly enough strength to take off

Lukla Airport is a small airport in the town of Lukla in eastern Nepal. In January 2008, the government of Nepal announced that the airport will be renamed the Sir Edmund Hillary Airport, kalia the first person who successfully reach the summit of Everest. Airport itself is quite popular because many are using it as a starting point for climbing Mount Everest

6.Madeira Airport (Madeira) 

Madeira Airport also known as Funchal Airport or the Santa Catarina Airport, too. This airport is an international airport located near the city of Funchal, Madeira. This airport traffic control aircraft from domestic and international kepulauaan Madeira

This airport has no runway yand preferred because short and surrounded by mountains and ocean, this makes the process of take off and landing is very difficult even for even a professional pilot. Original runway length is only 1.4 miles but added another 400 yards after an accident in 1977. Then in 2003 the airport was rebuilt with an increased length of the runway nearly double over the sea by using retaining blocks 70 meters high load.

5.Barra International Airport (Barra)


This airport is the only airport in the world who use the beach as its foundation. If you want to visit, you can book a British Airways is to serve the routes to Barra from Glasgow or Benbecula.

This airport was filled with water when tide comes and when you come in late afternoon the day, you may find a few cars parked with lights to help pilots.

4.Gustaf III Airport (St. Bart)


Gustaf III Airport also known as Saint Barthélemy Airport is a commercial airport that rural St. Jean on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy. Both the airport and the city's name is called by the name of King Gustav III of Sweden.

This airport serves a small commercial aircraft that operate regionally. Average menyinggahinya aircraft berpenumpang no more than 20 people as the Twin Otter. Berahir short runway on the beach and the beginning of the closed runway airport hill makes it dangerous for tourists to sunbathe at the end of the runway, although there are warnings to not bask in that location.

3.Courchevel (France)


Courchevel is a ski resort in the Alps, France. This airport has several constraints such as short runway only 525 m and the degree of slope up to 18.5%. So in short, the pilot had to land on the runway and flying upward toward a decreasing basis.

Who landed here? one of them is Pierce Brosnan, starred as a James Bond movie "Tomorrow never dies" at the opening of the film. Other? we have to use a helicopter or a small charter planes and pilots had to be trained first before landing there.

2.Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport (Saba)


Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport is the only airport of the island of Saba in the Caribbean. Airport is very well known with how the plane can take off from the runway.

Yrausquin Airport has a large portion of flights on the island of Saba. Some aviation experts have the opinion that this airport is one of the most dangerous airport in the world although there is no big tragedy that happened here. At the end of the runway there is a large letter X to indicate that the airport is not for commercial flights.

Danger comes from the geographical conditions of the airport itself, on one side and high hills on each end of the runway there is a direct drop into the ocean. Very dangerous for the aircraft with the possibility can not be landed due to hit the gap or lack of energy to take off that led to falling into the abyss as well.

1.Princess Juliana International Airport (Saint Martin)


No need to explain again what the danger, stay you see the image. The foundation is very close to the beach which is always crowded with tourists who were sunbathing.

Although there has never been a serious accident that resulted in casualties, but a good time to take off or landing when the jet blast from aircraft can cause a fatal accident for the tourists around him.

The question is why the airport is still used, even for a solid commercial flights? The answer is to somehow keep this airport is the safest place for flights from all locations on the island.

Because it is worth this airport was named the most dangerous airport in the world.