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Scariest airport EVER [PIC]

cdn-www.airliners.net — The landing strip in Courchevel, France is so short that you have to land on an inclined strip to slow down and take off on a decline to pick up enough speed. Who even needs to ski after a landing like that?

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  • bagelpirate, on 01/26/2008, -18/+1503If they missed, they could just fly around again.

    The scariest airport ever would have a gigantic wall at the end, covered in spikes and nazis.
    • iamlXl, on 01/26/2008, -9/+295and goatse images.
      • DarkSamus, on 01/26/2008, -4/+123that's the heliport
        • ssravp, on 01/26/2008, -65/+4If it's the heliport then why are there airplanes on the ground? Heliports don't usually have a runway.
        • gr3yg00s3, on 01/26/2008, -0/+65WHOOSH!

          The sound of it flying over ssravp's head.
          • kendawg, on 01/26/2008, -0/+36What flew over his head? A helicopter?
          • Coven, on 01/26/2008, -14/+5@kendawg

            a giant, gaping *****
          • ssravp, on 01/26/2008, -9/+33Damn it. I wish I could bury my own comment I can't believe I missed that reference.
        • skav, on 01/26/2008, -12/+1 .
      • capiCrimm, on 01/26/2008, -12/+3why not in goatse?
      • jotunn, on 01/26/2008, -11/+2were you even around for the original site? how do so many people get this wrong?

        goatse.cx, pronounced "goat sex," not "goatsy."
        • xlneoMAXlx, on 01/26/2008, -5/+9it was goat.cx, pronounced goat sex. then goat.se

          n00b
        • elmafudd, on 01/26/2008, -0/+9No i'm pretty sure it was goatse.cx
        • Synapse84, on 01/27/2008, -1/+2people pronounce it "goatsy" because nobody includes domain extensions when talking about a website..

          is this "diggcom" or "digg"?
          shall i search on "googlecom" or "google".
          • scotticus, on 01/27/2008, -1/+14All of you idiots are arguing about what to call a man's gaping *****.

            Seriously.... WTF.
    • skidme, on 01/26/2008, -40/+6Or maybe the wall would just have one huge Goatse image plastered on it. Scary stuff.
    • chingy1788, on 01/26/2008, -9/+187Big HDTV with 2girls1cup (HD Version) playing
      • chrisfrye11, on 01/26/2008, -4/+102Oh man, is it out on blu-ray yet?
      • chrisj33, on 01/26/2008, -0/+27That would be the in flight movie. On loop.
      • ozid, on 01/26/2008, -0/+13I'd make them SDTV's just so you can't compliment my airport on the good picture quality.
    • rollem, on 01/26/2008, -6/+21But if they have just a little bit too much speed when landing, they'll go off the runway without having enough speed to take off again.
      • blqysmg, on 01/26/2008, -0/+36one lands uphill. the problem would be landing short, into the cliff wall.
      • elnerdo, on 01/26/2008, -1/+24Falling off a cliff is actually a very efficient way to gain enough speed to fly again.
      • stoanhart, on 01/26/2008, -0/+4You land going towards the photographer. So, if you have a bit too much speed, you run into the snowy hill. That could cause some expensive damage to your plane, but I don't think it would be very fatal (since you would have lost most of the speed by then).

        Taking off, if you don't have enough speed you fall and gain more.

        Like the parent said, the scariest airport would have a wall at the end. This one is pretty cool, but not as dangerous as it looks.
    • sfxman, on 01/26/2008, -9/+2Going around at this type of airports is not an option... those who tried ended up in trees...
    • TomTruelle, on 01/26/2008, -2/+142dugg for wall of nazis
      • vanscott, on 01/26/2008, -3/+11also dugg for wall of nazis... someone please tell me that I'm not strange for trying to scare myself with nazis all the time. i.e. if nazis were following me right now where would I hide? or if I lay still would the nazis notice me?
        • Incomp3tnt, on 01/26/2008, -1/+19I use zombies. Like when I'm about to take a leak, I think "What would I do if when I open the door after this brief period of wonderful relief, there's been a zombie apocalypse?" I then end up planning possible escape routes and the heroic rescue of a group of very attractive women.
          And people wonder why I love going to the restroom so much.
        • Dhalgren, on 01/27/2008, -1/+1FOOL! The nazis aren't a threat, it's the velociraptors...
          http://www.velociraptors.info/
    • schroderr224, on 01/26/2008, -23/+2except nazis aren't scary. they're silly and sad.
      • drgmdp, on 01/26/2008, -1/+11they were hardcore scary
        they became the synonym of evil. that pretty much sums it up.
      • SuperCow1127, on 01/27/2008, -1/+2There's about 12 million people that would disagree with you if they still could...
    • Chairboy, on 01/26/2008, -1/+25Actually, go-arounds at this airport are explicitly not allowed. There's a mountain behind it, nowhere to go unless you have a military plane or something with crazy power.
      • scotticus, on 01/27/2008, -0/+1I just gave this one a try in FSX... I couldn't do it in anything but the cub. Having a lot of power doesn't necessarily mean short take off distance.
    • saralk, on 01/26/2008, -5/+57Quickest proof of Godwin's law yet?
      • spudnic, on 01/26/2008, -25/+5Do you even know what Godwin's law is?
        • bitspace, on 01/26/2008, -2/+24It seems so, since it was making fun of an invocation of "nazis" in the original comment. OK, so it wasn't use of Hitler or Nazis as a weak rhetorical defense, but the joke was sensible and funny.
    • Dylson, on 01/26/2008, -2/+6Agreed. This isnt scary, its just ***** cool.
    • MaxPayne3476, on 01/26/2008, -3/+35buried as inaccurate, the scariest airport resides in Newark, NJ
      • tehbored, on 01/26/2008, -0/+1True dat. Probably some of the worst delays in the world.
      • Hellahulla, on 01/27/2008, -0/+1My first ever flight was to that place, from Heathrow. I don't remember much about it, I think my mind has blocked the experience.
    • marrstu, on 01/26/2008, -3/+17Is it not a bit too early to bring up Nazis?
      • Jesusridesabike, on 01/27/2008, -2/+1Hell no, not if its that ***** funny!
    • BigglesPiP, on 01/26/2008, -1/+7Going around isn't an option, there is a mountain behind the camera, cliff sort of arcs round the runway, if you don't land on the tarmac, you land nose 1st in a near vertical cliff.
      • kcdstudios, on 01/27/2008, -0/+6as oppose to the other horizontal cliffs.

        :)
    • azkid, on 01/26/2008, -0/+2i will have nightmares now
    • RottenJalapeno, on 01/26/2008, -3/+0and a bear holding a sharkat the end of the runway as well. Now that would be scarry!
    • rentmitchum, on 01/26/2008, -4/+4The scariest airport is inhabited by Bruce Willis and a ragtag group of terrorizers.
    • Jesusridesabike, on 01/27/2008, -9/+1THE SCARIEST AIRPORT IN THE WORLD IS FULL OF AIDS.
    • senortaco, on 01/27/2008, -1/+6Logged in just to digg this comment.
    • giantsfan134, on 01/27/2008, -1/+1I'm pretty sure if they missed they would hit a mountain.
    • proficient, on 01/27/2008, -0/+4I haven't seen such a god-like comment like this in a while. 1k diggs. :o
    • dfective, on 01/27/2008, -0/+5dugg for getting over a thousand diggs with that line.
    • stempniaked, on 01/27/2008, -0/+1Spikes and Nazi's....i think i just peed alittle.
    • PlutoniumPlague, on 01/27/2008, -0/+1jeebus, I actually LoL'd
    • cambob76, on 01/27/2008, -0/+1How about spiked Nazi`s with mouth`s full of bee Nazis and when they shout at you they shoot Nazi bees at you
    • MikeGrenade, on 01/27/2008, -0/+2Holy ***** that's a lot of diggs.
      • MasterLJ, on 01/27/2008, -2/+0"The scariest airport ever would have a gigantic wall at the end, covered in spikes and nazis."

        I believe that wall was called the Maginot line
      • bagelpirate, on 01/27/2008, -0/+1Shattered my previous record
    • ashnbell, on 01/27/2008, -0/+1well, they seem to have had a similar idea at Denver airport.... they've got at least one wall with a distinctly Nazi like character painted upon it.The Nazi like character is actually in the process of impaling a white bird of some kind with a massive great sword (swords are kind of spikey).
      http://www.geocities.com/Baja/5692/murals04.jpg

      Not too far off of your "wall + Nazi's + spikes" concept.... admittedly the Nazi's and spikes are somewhat less 3 dimensional and solid than would have been ideal, and the New kind of missed all the runways when building the wall in question.

      But i think the effect on anyone who happened to notice the curious runway layout whilst still in the air...
      http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=39 ...
      ...confronted by the Nazi like fella in that mural, could cause some psychological damage at least
    • Tomchei, on 01/27/2008, -1/+2Nazis are only scary if you're Jewish.
      • kaplanfx, on 01/27/2008, -0/+3Or Black, or Gay, or a Gypsie, or if you don't have blond hair and blue eyes, etc...
  • Venste, on 01/26/2008, -12/+1224Does this remind anyone else of that Goldeneye level?
    • ghm101, on 01/26/2008, -4/+271wasn't it a scene in the movie before it was a game?
      • mille716, on 01/26/2008, -5/+127No one actually remembers the movie as well as the game though...
        • DarkSamus, on 01/26/2008, -29/+1i've never seen the whole movie, after the first ***** scene it got boring
          • bigdoof, on 01/26/2008, -0/+38Fortunately, it was the first scene.
          • Dwebtron, on 01/26/2008, -0/+4that movie was the best movie ever created.
        • sbrown, on 01/27/2008, -2/+1The airport in MS Flight Sim 2004 is rather disappointing.
      • failsafex, on 01/26/2008, -28/+2Wrong, dugg down. You do not question Goldeneye...EVER
      • ltchimpo, on 01/26/2008, -3/+5***** right. I found a copy of Goldeneye for $8usd @ a pawn shop. Great game, even after you've killed a guy and they're twirling through the air- you can still shoot them and get that satisfying thud! Oh, it's great! Damn you Trevlean!
        • Jevy14, on 01/26/2008, -0/+3Did you know that you could sell that game for over $20, a local vintage gaming shop i go to is charging $40 for it
      • EruLabs, on 01/26/2008, -0/+3Must... Plug... Goldeneye... source...

        ahhrg!
    • DonWigler, on 01/26/2008, -3/+149RCP90 FTW
      • neiltc13, on 01/26/2008, -27/+4Best gun in Perfect Dark Zero.
        • chedabob, on 01/26/2008, -1/+14Digg: Where having an opinion that goes against the grain is bury-worthy.
      • DocumentEd, on 01/26/2008, -0/+3Just don't forget to turn the volume on your TV DOWN...
      • billski, on 01/26/2008, -0/+4PHANTOM FTW, on frigate
        • kcdstudios, on 01/27/2008, -0/+2Double Phantom woot.
        • iChainsaw, on 01/27/2008, -0/+1I remember I saw that gun for the first time and was amazed.
      • rentmitchum, on 01/26/2008, -0/+2It's sad, I can't stop calling the P-90 in COD4 the RCP90.. lol my roommate hates that.
    • eyesmell, on 01/26/2008, -2/+35DK Mode + Paintball Mode + Fast Motion
    • yohnstoppable, on 01/26/2008, -0/+60No Oddjob
    • esharifi, on 01/26/2008, -9/+0Wasn't it Dam or Facility, one of those?
    • Christbait, on 01/26/2008, -5/+8It reminds me of both Goldeneye and the interior CD art for Kid A by Radiohead
      • theduck71, on 02/02/2008, -0/+1It is the Airport from Goldeneye, they just stretched it in the movie.
    • monospaced, on 01/26/2008, -3/+2Reminds me of the landing site in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
    • rrwright, on 01/26/2008, -8/+12No, it's the airport from "Tomorrow Never Dies." It's where the terrorists had their weapon sales. And Bond steals a jet and flies it UP the ramp, taking off right over another jet (which is later thwarted in an aerial duel by the unfortunate RIO being ejected from Bond's plane into the belly of the other).
      • kcdstudios, on 01/27/2008, -1/+2God damn that was completely wrong. Definitely Goldeneye. You need to stay in more.
      • MacSuxWindozSux, on 01/27/2008, -1/+2Definitely Goldeneye.
    • wetdirtmud, on 01/26/2008, -0/+10Yes it was in the movie where he knocks out the pilot and pulls back on the planes controls, looks like he fell straight down the mountain but he flies up and is shot at by all of the guards and Ourumov. In the video game Goldeneye 007 this level was called "Runway" I believe.
    • autobotguy, on 01/26/2008, -0/+8first thing i thought of was goldeneye
    • soupnrc, on 01/26/2008, -0/+4That was my first thought as well. Then I thought of the movie Air America... While that airport wasn't nearly as sketchy, still reminded me of it.
    • juicebag, on 01/27/2008, -0/+1Reminds me of the Timesplitter 2 level. Which was a copy of the Goldeneye level, but still.
    • Syphon8, on 01/27/2008, -1/+2Most dugg comment ever?
      • MacSuxWindozSux, on 01/27/2008, -0/+1No Steve Irwin's Death still has both highest and lowest digg records.

        There's nothing like being buried 3000+ times.
    • steevo, on 01/27/2008, -0/+2Actually it really looks like the runway from the beginning of Tomorrow Never Dies when Bond is at the arms sale and steals the Mig with the nukes on it
    • kcreasey, on 01/27/2008, -0/+1Steevo....that's what I am thinking too...gonna have to pop in the dvd when I get home from work tonight and see!
  • Malchus89, on 01/26/2008, -18/+384Just like Goldeneye, therefore I digg...
    • Locke23, on 01/26/2008, -4/+7Mission 1: Arkhangelsk
      - Runaway

    • jmreid, on 01/26/2008, -1/+13It actually looks like the scene from the beginning of Tomorrow Never Dies. James takes off going up that hill.
    • drgmdp, on 01/26/2008, -28/+1do people actually watch (and like) james bond movies?
      • mrjofo, on 01/26/2008, -0/+23no, they've only been making them for 40 years for fun.
      • kcdstudios, on 01/27/2008, -0/+2wrong speculation cat is speculating wrongly.
    • JRW5061, on 01/26/2008, -5/+0lol i was actually thinking the same thing.
    • FadieZ, on 01/26/2008, -0/+4Actually, it IS the airport from goldeneye. The camera is just tilted so it looks flatter. A simple google image search will show the airport if you`re skeptical.
    • rentmitchum, on 01/26/2008, -0/+5Way to stay.. onatopp of things..
  • derlin, on 01/26/2008, -5/+17i bet its worth flying into just for the skiing/snowboarding
    • D3THk4t, on 01/27/2008, -1/+1Absolutely. Best skiing I've ever done :)
      And that's an excellent photo, it really does look like that, and it's really freaky to see the planes come and go.
  • smacksaw, on 01/26/2008, -1/+84Coming next on ESPN 8 "The Ocho" - extreme takeoff and landing freestyle runs!
  • Vullkan, on 01/26/2008, -2/+4I wouldn't think of walking despite of landing or taking off
  • kupa, on 01/26/2008, -11/+2Dunno about landing or anything, but doesn't the Denver Airport have ***** up paintings/murals and other strange ***** scattered around it?
  • Aroundtheworls, on 01/26/2008, -0/+80The airport is Courchevel in the French Alps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNFNFZq2BFY
    • JanYpe, on 01/26/2008, -1/+7Jesus, that guy really has to slam it down there.
    • Smaulz, on 01/26/2008, -0/+7fuuuuhhhhhhkkk..... that. That's insane. Thanks for posting the video!
    • anogenic, on 01/26/2008, -3/+1That was already stated in the story description, but still dugg for the video
    • betona, on 01/27/2008, -0/+1Outstanding! I used to fly a Baron a lot and seeing those shots looking to the side at the wing brought back good memories. Barons are fantastic airplanes, like a sports car in the air.
  • Unreal595, on 01/26/2008, -4/+47Wasn't this in one of the James Bond movies?
    • solowCX, on 01/26/2008, -6/+8Looks like the airport in the very first scene of Tomorrow Never Dies.
    • chrismen, on 01/26/2008, -0/+10I thought it was Goldeneye. Remember the "Runway" stage in N64?
      • 4LeggedtriPod, on 01/26/2008, -0/+3God, I love that game. I wish they'd port it to the Wii.
    • steveboutin, on 01/27/2008, -0/+3they already had this discussion about 10 comments up.
    • TomT223, on 01/29/2008, -2/+0My first thought when I saw the pic.
      May have been in another post but some of us don't know what the hell Goldeneye is or even care.
  • goofygarber, on 01/26/2008, -5/+7I've seen worse.
    • Kardall, on 01/26/2008, -0/+2Then you should post your pics on Digg ... This could be your post!
    • TooManyHobbies, on 01/26/2008, -1/+5Pics or it didn't happen.
  • Nudar, on 01/26/2008, -27/+10Well the last time this exact airport was submitted to digg was 1 year 30 days ago, made popular 1 year 29 days ago. Let's see if it can surpass the 1524 diggs of the last submission.
    • brentinkc, on 01/26/2008, -4/+9Not all of us were here a year ago.
      • konspence, on 01/26/2008, -10/+2And that's why, for those of you, stories over a year old are not deleted. You can access them by clicking back through the pages.
        • drgmdp, on 01/26/2008, -1/+8which is not the idea of having a site with a frontpage where popular stories are
      • blahtastic, on 01/26/2008, -1/+4I was. Must have missed this though.
    • ssn697, on 01/26/2008, -2/+7I am impressed with your mastery of the inane. Congratulations for being so well versed in nothing...
    • clickwir, on 01/26/2008, -2/+4Agree'd. This is a dupe.
  • jmarzo, on 01/26/2008, -2/+6Watch out for the speeding airplanes. It looks like there's a speed bump installed.
  • blqysmg, on 01/26/2008, -1/+14As a glider pilot, this is NOT a scary airport. Takeoffs are simple, just get airspeed eventually. The only problem would be excessive rotor. Landings could be scary, but shouldn't be much of an issue - just don't come up short. Long landings are not really possible.
    • mille716, on 01/26/2008, -0/+2Wouldn't you land entering at the drop off point though?
      • Monstradamus, on 01/26/2008, -0/+7I think you enter the bottom of the slope so that the hill helps you slow down.
    • Malchus89, on 01/26/2008, -3/+2But what about non-glider pilots? Say someone is trying to take a Leer into there?
    • mrjit, on 01/26/2008, -1/+2Wouldn't the thermals from the valley help push up the aircraft anyway? Isn't that why its built at the cliff?
    • aviazn, on 01/26/2008, -0/+4The real problem here isn't coming up short, it's that you really only get one shot at a landing. If you mess up, you won't get much of a chance to execute a go around because you're flying straight at a huge mountain with very little available lift in the thin air at altitude.
    • SneezingTree, on 01/26/2008, -0/+5As a Canadian ultralight pilot, the landing is much less the scary part than the takeoff; Since you're on your way down a hill, there is no way to really stop if there is engine trouble. Even brakes won't help you much, if at all.
  • lacreme, on 01/26/2008, -2/+2Looks like they'll need to provide hygienic bags while you're on the ground.
  • mCanada, on 01/26/2008, -16/+5Wrong. The scariest part would be the pissed off token wives ***** down your throat for endangering their precious upper crust offspring if anything went askew.
    • perogi21, on 01/26/2008, -0/+4Token wives don't have offspring... They leave that job to the previous wives...
  • twiztidsinz, on 01/26/2008, -3/+26This reminds me of the Air Base outside of Iron Forge.
    • slundal, on 01/26/2008, -0/+5Haha I just flew over it and was thinking the same thing. Ingenious Dwarfs!
    • Artemis11, on 01/27/2008, -1/+3OMG its Ironforge durh.

      /sarcasm
    • tacomafia, on 01/27/2008, -0/+1upvoted for WoW
  • razorsedge555, on 01/26/2008, -2/+2A Pilatus Turbo Porter or other STOL turboprop would make short work of this tarmac.
  • leonwehttam, on 01/26/2008, -1/+4There was this one in Dutch Harbor, Alaska that i had to land at....they fly right at a mountain then bank right onto the landing strip....they said they came in too fast the first time in and had to take off again...i almost ***** my pants on that flight :D
  • samfishercell, on 01/26/2008, -2/+8I've gotta say, this movement on the net where a blog makes some list, slaps together a bunch of pictures, and makes it a post kinda irks me. I'd love to at least know where these airports are.
    • clickwir, on 01/26/2008, -2/+2Totally. It's mostly bull ***** with no content.
    • Chicken, on 01/26/2008, -0/+3I just hate it because of the word "EVER"
  • dhughes, on 01/26/2008, -4/+1 The part that scares me is how did those cars get there and even worse how do they leave? I don't see any roads.
    • lacreme, on 01/26/2008, -0/+11Now you're thinking with portals!
    • clickwir, on 01/26/2008, -0/+2It's just the angle at which the picture was taken. Taken at this angle to help make the severity of it more.
  • Jlaw09, on 01/26/2008, -0/+7This airport is Courchevel. Its in France and on the Alps. Usually pilots fly small Propeller planes there. On landing the apply a little bit of power to get up the hill. Also if you think this is scary you never seen Lukla airport near Mt Everest!
    • bluepass, on 01/27/2008, -0/+1I wonder if this airport is available in Flight Simulator. It's worth trying it out. Also isn't the point of the hill to slow down the airplane since the runway is short? Why would they increase power? I think the hardest thing about landing on that runway is landing right at the beginning of the strip. The incline will help slow down the airplane. The only problem would be touching down where the runway starts going up because you have the force of the touchdown pushing up on the landing gear and on top of that the land going up.
  • 007billabong, on 01/26/2008, -1/+33This airport was used in Tomorrow Never Dies. " The opening teaser sees Bond single-handedly blitzing a terrorist arms bazaar ëon the Russian borderí. The remote location is one of the worldís few high-altitude airfields, Peyresourde, in the central French Pyrenees."
  • bullox, on 01/26/2008, -0/+6San Diego's airport forces planes to fly dangerously close to the downtown area. A friend of mine lives in an apartment downtown, planes fly directly overhead.
    • tallarida, on 01/26/2008, -0/+1i fly into san diego all the time. its a very steep descent.
  • littlebylittle, on 01/26/2008, -6/+53It's a secret Scientology Base.
    • Sean42, on 01/26/2008, -10/+1Why can't I digg up a comment with scientology in it?

      Where did all of the stories go from the front page?

      Is Digg filtering this stuff out?
  • mistafreeze, on 01/26/2008, -4/+2wow, so scary it scared the server!
  • XxbladesfirexX, on 01/26/2008, -3/+19LoL, It's perfectly safe, works using the updrafts of the mountain. (I'm a pilot).
    • daxsymbiont, on 01/26/2008, -11/+2the updrafts. u and 1 more would know what they r.
      • Svizac, on 01/26/2008, -1/+2lol isnt it obvious? :)

        I'm not a pilot, not even a weather enthusiast :)

        I reckon it's the wind blowing over the mountain, blowing up on this side so you get more lift from the same aircraft speed.

        Am I right?
      • twiztidsinz, on 01/26/2008, -1/+8Updraft...
        Lets take a moment and split it into a few smaller words: Up and Draft
        Up - A direction, usually above.
        Draft - Movement of air.
        now, Updraft - movement of air in an up direction.
    • subhuman, on 01/26/2008, -3/+10Both wrong. And you are not a pilot.

      They are called "altiports", they fly a teardrop shaped circuit ( land up the slope, take off down) and you require a mountain rating in france to use them. The "updrafts" you speak of have nothing to do with it, they are built this way simply because they have no other choice, and at 8,000ft. engines dont have nearly the same performance as they do at MSL.
      • XxbladesfirexX, on 01/27/2008, -2/+2Are you a pilot? Because the wind coming off that mountain sure as hell will make or break you, nice try.
  • sam1215, on 01/26/2008, -3/+0That Would be so intense but so scary!!!
  • Existenz87, on 01/26/2008, -0/+18And if you miss your plane you can just use your motorcycle to jump off the end of the runway and free fall to catch up with the plane.
  • xample, on 01/26/2008, -3/+2goldeneye was the first thing that came to mind
  • Milkey, on 01/26/2008, -5/+0Goldeneye Runway Level much?
  • diadem2, on 01/26/2008, -1/+3What makes me shiver isn't the airport itself, but the thought of getting the materials there to build it in the first place
  • chill888, on 01/26/2008, -0/+14one funny thing about the airport is that many of the signs are in Russian as the new oil-rich go skiing there. Last year a Russian high class prostitute ring was busted at Courchevel. I cycled up to it last year - excuse my ugly head but see the Russian writing above.

    http://www.cycling-challenge.com/wp-content/upload ...

  • orangefly, on 01/26/2008, -1/+2oh hell no....i'll wait for the helicopter....
  • aclements, on 01/26/2008, -0/+2I think I'll pass on flying into this place for a while. I'll jump out of the plane, but I don't think I would want to land there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFzP9CRFdWw
  • spence1818, on 01/26/2008, -0/+0that looks more like a jump than a landing
  • DevinOlsen, on 01/26/2008, -5/+1This was on the front page like just a couple days ago... Buried
  • choppergirl, on 01/26/2008, -1/+0Nah, its just like flying under powerlines or bridges... you block out everything but your approach... in the case of power lines and bridges, you approach it flat and level like you are going to land.. but you don't... you just scoot right on under, then pull up and away. In this case, you block out everything but the airstrip, and your approach...
  • Perk, on 01/26/2008, -0/+4You should try Lukla - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukla_Airport - big mountain on one end - thousand meter drop on the other. And it's at 2900 meters elevation, so you don't exactly have full power.
  • pavkata, on 01/26/2008, -0/+2Lukla Airport, elevation 9100ft (IATA: LUA, ICAO: VNLK) in Eastern Nepal is usually the starting point on the trek to Everest.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqgZvb37NX0
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukla_Airport
    http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/79639/13d2d6/
    http://www.ecoexpeditions.no/nepal/everest/images/ ...
    http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?place ...

  • stoneking, on 01/26/2008, -3/+0007 goldeneye
  • Enlefo, on 01/26/2008, -0/+17Yes, that is a scary airport considering you have to kill all those russians and steal a tank before you can take off.
  • Yaricks, on 01/26/2008, -3/+1This isn't the scariest... Search for Lukla.
    Look here:
    http://www.aviationpics.de/prev/flight-lukla-600.j ...

    The airport is located close to Mt. Everest.. Looks allmost the same, but has a giant 1000m wall at one end, and a 2000m drop at the other end..

    Google it!
  • samuraipizzacat, on 01/26/2008, -0/+6Rule 1: No Oddjob
  • BigglesPiP, on 01/26/2008, -0/+1That ain't the half of it, there is a cliff face and a mountain behind the camera, no going around.

    Drop of the end of the runway is quite steep and deep too.
  • iamnotrich, on 01/26/2008, -0/+1I always thought guatemala city's airport was scary
    http://cdn-www.airliners.net/photos/photos/5/3/3/0 ...
    • sirpyro, on 01/27/2008, -0/+1Na, that's a really nice one.

      Try a 700ft field some time, with cows on it!
  • Vorrador, on 01/26/2008, -4/+0looks very phallic :P
  • MLisa, on 01/26/2008, -1/+1I can't believe over 200 diggers think the far end of the pic is where they land...the camera is facing where the planes come IN. The place comes in from the open space and then goes up the incline...you don't just go around again if you can't stop in time! You will hit a snowbank or trees.
    • twiztidsinz, on 01/26/2008, -0/+2um.. no?
      Wouldn't you touch down on the cliff edge and come to a stop at the the center of the pic?
      So you can taxi over to the right side (the plane's Left), turn around, pick up passengers and take off?
      • jab2980, on 01/27/2008, -0/+0That is exactly what MLisa said. You land coming from the leftish side of the pic and take off from the rightish side, over the cliff.
  • wastelander, on 01/26/2008, -2/+3Some more info about the airport in this clip:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNFNFZq2BFY&feature ...
    (not Rick Roll)
  • vspazv, on 01/26/2008, -0/+8It's not scary unless there's a burned out plane near the end of the runway.
  • SirJman, on 01/26/2008, -1/+0Anyone remember the old airport in Hong Kong? Fly directly into the mountains, then over the buildings for landing.
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