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Monday, December 26, 2011

8 World's Most Dangerous Airports


In everyday life is paced quickly now this , the airport could be the busiest place in the world . Every minute the plane take off and landing at different airports around the world . There are many airports where the pilot felt imitate when it gets there. However , not all airport to be a fun destination for pilots, the following are some of the airport is a nightmare for them.


1. Kansai International Airport

Location: Osaka, Japan
Year established : 1994


Airport International Kansai built on a island made ​​with 2.5 miles long and 1.6 miles wide. Area is large enough that can be seen from space . Travelers from the airport can go to the main city by car, train or ferry at high speed.


Schreckengast Stewart who is a professor of aviation technology at Purdue University and a former consultant Mitre flight, said that the airport is probably going to be under water within 50 years or more due to climate change and sea level rise due to global warming.


2. Madeira Airport 

Location: Santa Cruz, Portugal 
Year established: 1964


Madeira Airport is an international airport. Airport was once known by the short runway surrounded by mountains and sea that makes high landing difficult even for experienced pilots. Foundation on which the original is only 1,400 meters, but then extended 400 meters.


Runway length was extended two times in 2003 up to the upper ocean. Because built using trash, extension was built on a high pole 180 of about 70m.


3. Airport Juancho E. Yrausquin 

Location: Saba, Netherlands
Year established: 1963


Airport Juancho E. Yrausquin is the only airport on the island of the Caribbean, Saba, in the Antilles the Netherlands . The airport covers all locations in this small island. Despite the fact that yet there is a great tragedy that has ever happened here. Some experts still think that this is one of the most dangerous airports in the world.


What makes these airports dangerous is that both ends of the runway was eventually arrested by the cliff directly into the sea while one side is covered with high hills. This makes possible the aircraft to overshoot the runway during landing or takeoff and end up at sea or on cliffs.


4. Platform Flying Ice 

Location: Ross Island, Antarctica
Year established: -


Ice runway is one of the three main runway is used for transporting goods to the researchers in Antarctica. There is no paved runways here. All aircraft must be landed along the ice and snow. Landings should be done with extra heart care. One of the challenges that pilots have to face is to direct the plane into the ground so that the plane did not get stuck into the snow. Okay, sounds crazy!


5. Princess Juliana International Airport 

Location: Saint Maarten, Eastern Caribbean 
Year established: 1942


Princess Juliana Airport is the second busiest airport in the Eastern Caribbean. The airport is named after Juliana of the Netherlands, a crown princess who landed here in 1944. The airport has a runway is very short, about 2180 meters which makes it very popular. Because of this short runway, the aircraft should approach the island by flying very low. Various photographs jet flying over 10-20 meters or 30-60 feet above the island is estimated to false but apparently the original.


6. Courchevel Airport

Chourchevel is the name of the largest ski area in France. This area has its own airport with a runway is very short so that the pilot must land on a low strip and take off in strips repellent to get enough speed. Only private or chartered planes and helicopters are allowed to land.


You should see the airport in scene opening the movie Tomorrow Never Dies.


7. Barra International Airport 

Location: Barra, Scotland 
Year established: 1975


Barra Airport is the only airport in the world where the plane should land on the beach. The airport is situated on the beach on the island of Barra, Scotland is very broad. The airport is literally washed away by the waves once a day.


8. Lukla Airport 

Location: Nepal 
Year established: -


Lukla Airport is a small airport in the town of Lukla in eastern Nepal. The airport is located at altitude 2,900 meters and is quite popular because it has a mountain of very large on one side and 1000 feet derivatives on the other . In 2008, the airport's name was changed in honor of Sir Edmund Hillary who was the first to summit Mount Everest.


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