Monday, February 29, 2016

Looks like an "interesting" place to land


It's Tegucigalpa Airport in Honduras.  According to the History Channel, it's the second most dangerous airport in the world.  Here's an outside view of a Boeing 757 making the steep final diving turn to land on the (rather short, uphill) runway.





And here's the approach, filmed from the cockpit of a Boeing 737.





I'm glad that airport's not on my normal travel route!

Peter

8 comments:

Timbo said...

I flew into there a few times in the 1980s. I remember one occasion as we were bouncing around a bit more than usual in the final turn, the passenger next to me screamed and grabbed my arm. It made me rethink my position on nuns and their direct communication line to the Boss!

Sam vfm #111 said...

The approach to Pago Pago International is similar. A Pam Am 707 went down there in 1974

Commercial Aviation Accident - Pan Am 806 Animation

Larry said...

Is it safe to say there's no autoland system there?

c w swanson said...

So what's the first most dangerous airport?

Inconsiderate Bastard said...

Looked like a better than average 3-wire trap to me.......

R said...

Kind of like 11 at Sitka (where I missed a flight because storm waves were tossing boulders on the runway) or 8 in Juneau.

Anonymous said...

Also landed at the airport (passenger) in the 1980's. Interesting approach down several valleys looking directly into and uphill at houses. Lots of turbulence. Hard breaking at the end due to all the C-47s and C-123s parked at the end of the strip. None flyable - all for show. The good stuff was "loaned" out by the government to "certain interests".

Ruth said...

C.W., if I recall the History Channel's take on it the #1 worst runway was this little tiny thing on the side of a mountain in Nepal. It literally dead-ends into the side of the mountain, there IS no "go around" if you mess it up. Oh, and its really really easy to come in to low and kill yourself that way too.