The runway is a fraction above 6000 feet and in icy conditions, if you overshoot the runaway, you fall off the cliff. However here planners decided to build the runway on the top of the cliff rather than in a surrounding valley. In 1985 a flight from Madrid crashed into Mount Oiz killing all 148 people on board.Īnother of the world’s most dangerous airports located in a mountainous region now. On the north coast of Spain, Bilbao from time to time has to deal with very strong winds which planes must contend with only after they’ve successfully cleared the Basque region’s numerous peaks. The airport is fairly dire and the city is one of the most dangerous in the world. Things don’t get much better once you’ve touched down. Located in a valley between mountain ranges, passengers experience a sharp drop in altitude and a 45 degree twist before landing at Toncantin. Toncantin Airport, Tegioculpa, HondurasĪnother of Latin America’s most dangerous airports now and a slightly hairy landing for anyone backpacking Central America and flying into Tegioculpa.
In Guatemala they don’t tend to bother.Ħ. In Europe erupting volcanoes have been known to close large regions of airspace. Volcanic ash can potentially bring down planes. One of the most amazing approaches in the world with mountain ranges and many highly active volcanoes surrounding Guatemala City. La Aurora International Airport, Guatemala City, Guatemala If you’ve ever been travelling in New Zealand and visited what is one of the world’s greenest cities, there’s a good chance you will have landed here.ħ. The 6000 foot runway is on the short side and at each end there is sea. In a city nicknamed ‘Windy’ Wellington you would have thought they could have found a slightly safer place to build the airport. Read more – Check out our feature on Bangkok’s Khao San Road, possibly the most international street in the world. Not really dangerous, unless you are the idiots playing golf with Boeing 747’s landing on both sides. This airport in Thailand’s capital makes the list only because squeezed in between the two runways, there is an 18 hole golf course. Not a good place to jump the traffic lights! Either way it seems to have worked and to add to the danger there is a main road which intersects the runway. Whether this was to overcome the lack of space or just to irritate the Spanish is open for debate. This tiny British enclave in the Med decided to build a runway partially in the sea.
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