That's one short runway. The pilot has to touch down as soon as possible and hit the reverse throttle. You can't abort a landing, because there's a mountain at the end of the runway. This runway makes <a href="https://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/08/Hong-Kongs-Kai-Tak-Airport/" alt="Kai-Tak Airport" class="on">Kai-Tak Airport</a> look downright civilized.

​<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing%E2%80%93Hillary_Airport">Tenzing–Hillary Airport</a> in Lukla, Nepal, is known as the most dangerous airport in the world. However, it is fairly busy ferrying mountain climbers to the drop-off point for Everest Base Camp. It also ferries in almost everything else, too, because there are no roads to the area. The single runway is only 1,729 feet (527 meters) long, with a mountain at one end and a drop-off at the other. Only certain kind of aircraft can land there, and pilots have to reach rigorous STOL (short takeoff and landing) milestones before they are certified to use the airport. Let's see that from the pilot's perspective. You won't see the airport until about 1:20.

Tenzing–Hillary Airport is at an elevation of 9,334 feet (2,845 meters), which is 1500 feet higher than Aspen Airport in Colorado. But Aspen's runway is more than 8,000 feet long! -via <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/01/18/watch-a-plane-land-at-the-worlds-most-dangerous-airport.html">Boing Boing&nbsp;</a>​ #airport #runway #Lukla #STOL #TenzingHillaryAirport

Landing at the World's Most Dangerous Airport

Can you believe people still try to carry firearms on planes? Or drugs? Twenty years of enhanced airport security, and you'd think people would have gotten the message by now. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) take their work seriously, and they are constantly confiscating forbidden items that people show up with at the airport. It's not all guns and drugs, either. The TSA has compiled a list of some of the strangest items found in the past year.

A meat cleaver? A gun disguised as a belt buckle? Bear spray? Before you get on a plane, think about what you are carrying in your pockets and in your carryon luggage. If it's a forbidden item, they will take it and they will keep it. You don't want to end up on next year's list! #airportsecurity #TSA #airport