САМЫЕ ОПАСНЫЕ АЭРОПОРТА МИРА 1 The Courchevel

САМЫЕ ОПАСНЫЕ АЭРОПОРТА МИРА

1. The Courchevel airport is known to have the shortest runway at just 525 meters long. added to that the runway has a gradient of 18. 5%. aspects that affect takeoffs and landings daily. World’s most dangerous airport landing. Here, pilots are required to navigate the popular Alps Mountain before landing.

2. One of the busiest airports in the Caribbean. To land on Princess Juliana International Airport, pilots have to fly over a little part of the beach, cross over the fence and then pass over the road and then land on the runway. It is the most dangerous airport in the world. The airport’s landing strip is just too short at only 7, 150 feet long. Large aircraft need at least 8, 000 feet to insure a safe landing while some really heavy planes require 10, 000 feet. It was built for small and medium planes. However, jumbos such as A 340 s and the 747 s do land here.

3. The Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport is located in the Netherlands’ island in the Caribbean called Saba. Its runways have a length of only 400 meters and end with a cliff drop to the sea. High hills also flank one side of the runway. It is so dangerous that it has been officially declared as closed to traffic, although the Civil Aviation Authority of the Netherlands Antilles grants some exceptions.

4. Three major airstrips service Antarctica, allowing for deliveries of much-needed supplies at Mc. Murdo Station. Still, there are no paved runways in this land of snow and ice. Indeed, long swaths of ice are carefully smoothed and maintained for landing aircraft. While the Sea Ice Runway is long and wide enough to accommodate enormous aircraft, the danger lies in the ice's potential to crack under the weight of planes and their cargo, or the threat of a plane getting stuck in soft snow. As a result, the airfield is used in the spring — Antarctica's coldest season — and then typically closed in December when warmer temperatures weaken the ice.

5. The world’s scariest airport landings and take-offs. Strong crosswinds and the surrounding mountains only added to the difficulties of landing here. At one time, travelers were quite upbeat about Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong. However, this was before it was christened “the mother of all scary airports. ” The airport that brought us the most dangerous airports landings on earth closed in 1998. It used to be the base of Cathay Pacific as well as many regional carriers. Aircraft pilots were careful to infuse dollops of caution when making a landing or taking off.

6. The landing strip is only 6, 000 feet long and it lies between the Mediterranean and the Bay of Gibraltar. If the pilot miscalculates while landing the only place for you to end up in is the water and upon touch down, the brakes must be pulled in full in order to stop in time otherwise the strip finishes and its curtains. Imagine all this precision landing in a really bad weather and you will understand why Gibraltar made it to the eighth spot.

7. Madeira Airport This airport is located near Funchal, Madeira which is off the coast of Morocco. This airport was once known for its extremely short runway, which, in combination with high mountains and the ocean, made for difficult landings and takeoffs. After a series of incidents, this airport was extended and widened. However, to do so meant building it out over the ocean and employing the use of columns to build it on, about 180 of them. Each column stands over 200 feet tall. Its size is plenty big to handle larger aircraft safely

8. Barra International Airport is also known as the Barra Eoligarry Airport. It is located in Barra Island in Outer Hebrides in Scotland. It is the only airport in the world that actually uses a beach as a runway. When high tide comes, the runways actually go under the sea. Thus, flights are scheduled based on the tide. The airport has short runways, with three runways forming a triangle marked by permanent wooden poles at the ends. Small aircrafts like Twin Otters can land into the wind.

9. Gustaf III Airport, Saint Barthelemy Gustaf III Airport is located in the Frenchadministered Caribbean island of Saint Barthelemy. It was named after the 18 th century king of Sweden after he bought the island from France, though it was later sold back in 1878. The airport has a short runway that usually accommodates only small aircrafts of less than 20 passengers. The runway is at the base of a slope that ends on the beach. Planes exercise caution during the approach because of the hilltop traffic. Planes taking off do so right over the heads of people sunbathing at the beach.

10. Kansai International Airport is an international airport located on an artificial island in the middle of Osaka Bay. An artificial island, 4 km (2. 5 mi) long and 2. 5 km (1. 6 mi) wide, was proposed. Engineers needed to overcome the extremely high risks of earthquakes and typhoons (with storm surges of up to 3 m (10 ft)).