Worlds 10 most deadly airports

[xbrit]

Actually was part of a crew into HKG on numerous occasions during the 80's, normally on VC10 aircraft. The last time I was in there we blew a main on landing this was after flying there from Kathmandu, another nice little airfield near Everest.

[InCrypt]

I just found that MS FSX has Courchevel France. Courchevel Airport - CVF. It's a VERY Short runway, but does nto have the ski-jump or roller coaster effect - just a short flat runway - with a bunch of 80 foot trees at the end!

[Spikes]

Thats cool that you got to go there, while watching the show that was the one airport I wanted to actually go to, not only does that look like a lot of fun standing by the fence during takeoff's, but the view of watching them land looked just beautiful.

Yeah it was disappointing not to be able to see a bigger plane land...it's awesome sitting on the beach and them flying over at 50 feet!

[Shuffler]

I just found that MS FSX has Courchevel France. Courchevel Airport - CVF. It's a VERY Short runway, but does nto have the ski-jump or roller coaster effect - just a short flat runway - with a bunch of 80 foot trees at the end!

Search youtube..... several interesting videos of the airport.

This will get you started... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFzP9CRFdWw

[greens]

Dutch Harbor isn't on there?

rpm u flew there before?. i did w alaska airlines before they quit going there, i duno if they opened up service again there, but DAMM it was scarey as hell dude when we landed there.

[CAP1]

#10,,,,,,a building on approach.

i've been seeing more and more building that is wayyyyy too close to the approach/departure ends of the runways at my local airports.

 at KVAY(south jersey regional) they're building a housing development right under where we make our crosswind turn.
 so you figure......under full power, 500ft AGL, and turning. that makes us kind of "linger" slightly as we're only doing 65 or so. ya think those people are gonna complain sooner or later?

 they screwed us at bader field(although i never flew to there) by putting condos stupidly close to the departure end. that airport had historical significance too, as it was the birthplace of the civil air patrol. and cap sank 2 u-boats off the coast of atlantic city, with pilots flying out of there.

[Vulcan]

My local airport: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_LaAkAyoz0

These landings are not the exception but the norm. The airports in a sort of valley, not aligned with the prevailing winds. If it's a southerly then you're landing into winds coming off the antartic, if it's a northerly you're landing into windows that have come of a bunch of hills down across a harbour. Either way the turbulence is nasty. I've landed there hundreds of times, and still live fingernail marks in the arm rest. Note the short angled runway too

[Golfer]

TV Show Fail on this one.

San Diego and St. Maarten?  Nah.  St. Maarten is pretty and while there are hills off the departure end of 10 the rest of the directions are ocean.  July 2009 - very scary.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFUPTHlBDWk

Aspen on a day where there's weather? - I don't go there.  Rifle it is or somewhere else that isn't going to get me plastered on the side of a mountain thanks.

I'll buy Tegucigalpa (MHTG) and a couple others on the list however there are dozens more than should but don't make the cut.  Heck the Ocean Reef Club when the manager is yelling at you is more dangerous than San Diego 

[rpm]

rpm u flew there before?. i did w alaska airlines before they quit going there, i duno if they opened up service again there, but DAMM it was scarey as hell dude when we landed there.

Never flew in there, but watched several takeoffs and landings from the harbor.

[Scherf]

Sorry, the world's deadliest airport is bloody Frankfurt.

"Yu are not vlying zer Lufthansa? Zo, yur tranzfer gate iz 3,345km avay on zer ozzer zide off zer airport. Yu haff tventy minutes to get zere.

Iff yu do not report on time, yur bags vill be ovvloaded, und yu vill be detained by zer Grenzschutz und zer GSG9 in a room viz 35 Ruzzian gangsters.





Haff a           nice                        day."

More people must drop dead of heart attacks from over-exerrtion than in any other place in the world.

[Spikes]

TV Show Fail on this one.

San Diego and St. Maarten?  Nah.  St. Maarten is pretty and while there are hills off the departure end of 10 the rest of the directions are ocean.  July 2009 - very scary.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFUPTHlBDWk

Aspen on a day where there's weather? - I don't go there.  Rifle it is or somewhere else that isn't going to get me plastered on the side of a mountain thanks.

I'll buy Tegucigalpa (MHTG) and a couple others on the list however there are dozens more than should but don't make the cut.  Heck the Ocean Reef Club when the manager is yelling at you is more dangerous than San Diego 

I agree that Princess Juliana isn't deadly but it's scary sitting on the beach when planes are flying over at less than 50 feet. Granted I only got to see small aircraft, but I could just imagine a 747 flying over.

[Babalonian]

How old is this show? Kai Tak was closed in last century, that's over a decade ago.

It officialy closed over a decade ago to all traffic when the new airport opened, had a ceremony and they turned off the runway lights.  Shortly afterwards though they reopened Kai Tak for I think a couple more years (not really sure how long they reopened it and when they reclosed it again) to commercial cargo flights due to the systems at the new airport not being ready to fully handle all the commercial traffic, cargo traffic and buisness.  Once the new airport was brought fully online I think Kai Tak turned off its runway light for the very last time.  Still would of been about 8 years ago.

[Simba]

Deadliest was probably Wau Airfield, New Guinea. Just one runway cut out of the jungle on a hill-side, with mountains all round and a gradient and drop-off at one end that dictated takeoffs in one direction only and landings in t'other, regardless of the wind direction. During the 1930s gold-rush it was the world's busiest air-freight terminal, with all sorts of transports flying in mining machinery and supplies, and people and gold-dust out - if they survived their first arrival, which all too many didn't; the wreckage lined both sides of the runway along almost its entire length.

North Shore, Gibraltar had its fraught moments too, before they extended the original runway.

 

[Dichotomy]

Search youtube..... several interesting videos of the airport.

This will get you started... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFzP9CRFdWw

JEEEZZZZ 

Do they cull the pilot apps from Samuri sword testers school?  That looks like an easy way to commit suicide and ensure your kids get the insurance money.

Do you think Hitech would model it on a mountain for us

[Simba]

Courchevel looks fun - wouldn't like to have to land a tail-dragger there, for sure, on that crazy runway.