35 Airports Pilots Would Rather Never Land In If They Could Choose

Yikes!

You can find a video of a pilot coming into this airport. It's a butt clencher.

Scratch that from the bucket list.

I have landed in this airport. It was quite exciting!

An airport that has been voted as the most dangerous in the world, impossible to go around with a drop of 100s of feet right before the runway. Short runway and windy too

12% is a difficult bike ride, let alone a plane ride!

not to mention that there is a mountain right at the end of the runway, so it is one way in only, and out in the opposite direction, thats it. So if you screw up your approach and realize too late, too bad, you are now committed to make that landing attempt work somehow, as there is no going around option, as a touch and go would take you right into a mountain side. So nail it or it will be the final nail in your coffin.

And houses right up on it, yeesh.

The runways cross each other AND ARE USED AT THE SAME TIME?? 😱😱 it’s probably safer than it sounds to an untrained person but this freaks me out…

I've flown out of there. Never knew what it looked like.

Being a NYer who prefers to fly from LGA, I have THE utmost respect for all of the pilots who fly there!

It's not the most dangerous... that's Tenzing–Hillary Airport in Nepal

What a nightmare for air traffic control. I expect a serious domestic crash anyday. Employee shortages in the towers, inexperienced & overworked controllers is a recipe for disaster.

Highly decorated World War 2 Essex Class carrier commissioned in 1943 decommissioned in 1947. Recommissioned in 1955 after being refit to carry jets. Spent 30 years as a training carrier in Florida before being retired in 1991. Currently serving as a museum in Corpus Christi, Texas. She's lovingly cared for by a tremendous crew of volunteers and is a popular thing to do in Corpus. They host many events such as screening the movie Top Gun from the flight deck and my personal favorite, a rodeo in 2021. They moved tons of dirt, bulls, stands, and everything else needed for a rodeo up to the flight deck.

One of my pilots told me its like trying to land on a postage stamp

Fun fact: unlike other runways, an aircraft carrier can move forward and in any direction it wants. That means the runway always points pretty much into the wind. Any crosswind resulting from deflection off of the island is essentially meaningless because landings happen aft of the island and takeoffs happen in front of it.

I'm a little stuck on that part about cats kicking your butt. Hydraulic?

😮 wow. No words

So which one is the idiot that wasn't landing or taking off into the wind and who's the controller that gave them clearance? And why would you climb when turning is so easy?

Great story. Glad you made it and got free beers.

While technically it's "easier" than Courchevel Altiport (same length, similar elevation, but less steep inclination), Lukla is among the most dangerous because the level of training for pilots in the area is not stellar (despite mandatory minimum standards and training for the specific airport). There have been half a dozen accidents all but one from pilot mistakes. Nepal is among the countries with the highest number of aviation incidents, mostly from lack of infrastructure and poor pilot training, to the point that Nepalese airlines are barred from flying in the western world and Nepalese certifications are not recognized.

Scarier is the fact it wasn't even paved until 2001..

This article be called 33 airports, with the same one covered thrice.

I've walked and driven across there many times. Now they've built a tunnel at the east end of the runway so no need to wait and watch the planes land anymore. Saw Elton John there a while back and we were walking back into Spain after the concert and they shut the runway for Elton's private jet to take of, vey poetic moment. Daniel is travelin' tonight on a plane I can see the red taillights headin' for Spain......

Also needs to have good weather and visibility. If the cross winds are over 16 knots (I think) or visibility is less than 2 miles, planes won't land and get diverted, usually to Malaga instead.

wooo Gibraltar! Last time I went we got diverted into Spain as the wind was too strong, this man had a MELTDOWN when we landed as his cat was in the hold. We got off the plane fine and got our luggage so I don't know what this guys issue was, maybe the cat was poorly :( or maybe he was crazy and wanted to make a scene, he lost all sympathy when he turned round to this women and screamed at her because her baby was crying. uhhh yeah, it's probably upset that this nutjob is screaming the whole plane down about his cat. Anyway, Love Gibraltar and that airport is cute.

came here just to see this

So these conditions are due to noise complaints from people near the airport? Dang..

My maternal grandmother lived near an airport when I was younger, and much like the train tracks I live near, I learned to ignore it.

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I grew up in a house that was three miles south of the Ontario (California) International Airport. You get so used to hearing the planes that you automatically tune it out.

Used to live close to John Wayne as a small child. The patio furniture was never clean. Flown out of there and out of LAX many times. They always pull out over the Pacific during the ascent, even when going east, before turning. Idk why.

Whoever complains about Aspen has never seen Courchevel Altiport. Same altitude, 1/4th the runway lenght. On a slope. With a cliff on one end and a steep dive on the other. Without instrumental aids, and with minimal lighting. Pilots trained on aircraft carriers consider that a hard place to land in.

Ah yes. I used to fly next to restricted airspace (fighter base) and woe betide if their ATC thought you got as much as a wingtip into their airspace. Hell, we'd be flying 1km inside our own airspace and if it was a slow day for them they'd get on our frequency just to "remind" us not to stray over the line...

I used to live right in the flight path for taking off and landing at DCA. There are noise restriction hours because it's a residential area, but you could set your clock by when the planes stop flying and when they start again. I believe it's 10pm and 7am but I would swear on my life they'd start before 6am every day!

Can confirm landing or taking off from Madeira is exciting. Thank goodness for diazepam

Absolutely hate it. Alot of times, do to weather conditions, planes have to be diverted to mainland Portugal and then you're just stuck there until they're able to fly back to the island.

They really decided to name it THAT

Personally never flown in or out of a toilet bowl but I will take your word for it