What Landing at the World's Most Dangerous Airport is Like
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Nice
nice
Alright good luck
U so long
Do I need an AMC moviepass to view??
So this is the Final Boss in the Flight Simulator?
nah this is the first level
Yup
Yup
ORBX scenery package will be on it like they did for FSX
lol
Person: *literally dies
RealLifeLore: *insert Cool fire burning gif
I guess because the plane would have exploded...
@@axeldewater9491 flames everywhere
🔥BOOM🔥
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Yeah, a fade to black, or just not putting something there probably would have been a better call.
Laughs in Microsoft Flight Simulator landing challenges
LOLL
I flew there in MSFS and land the caravan like a ryanair plane JAJJAJA
In MFS,anything's possible.
@@LudicrousTorpedo kinda, I crash into before the runway an die the first try. I imagine I slide down 200 meters
Try it with a 747
Meanwhile at Wendover Productions:
Why this Toyota Corolla factory is the most dangerous in the world
“You steal my vids I steal yours!”
What's the weight of the earth in Toyota Corollas?
@@fighter5583 The Earth weighs 1285409607765183119846533202840109305973080 Toyota Corollas. I changed this comment to match the real calculation since I found a big error.
@@flyingdoggo9887 Didn't expect anyone to actually answer it but I can definitely say we're gonna need a giant factory.
Lol
I was in lukla earlier this year, I was on the first flight out of there after the airport reopened after closing for covid-19, something about lukla I'd like to make known, the hotels in the area changed from a payment system, to a "suggested donation" system when we were all stuck in lukla due to covid. The hotels there had a bad season this year, knowing that, they were still generous and treated us like family.
Hiking the area is amazing and great people. Never far from a hospitable tea house. Even Everest Base Camp is less than 2 miles from one.
glad to know you had a good experience!
Wendover productions: **angry noises**
Half as Interesting: Hold my plane
WP *punches air*
Wendover be like
*’The logistics of running the worlds most dangerous airport*
'As dangerous as Lukla Airport is, at least it's not Newark Airport'
@@naufal6174 how dare you mention Newark airport with Lukla airport in the same sentence
2:48 “less than one third of the average length”. i know that feeling
Your name btw!
I see what you did there
@@VeeVex exactly my thoughts
Rolf
F
Would've been better if you were sponsered by "Hover"
*Sponsored
Wait a minute this isn’t Wendover Productions
I think these guys are roommates though
@@blackstonedaze8983 they are just friends not roommates
@@gopher6532 I think they are more than friends
@@theMcWOPPER no Wendover lives in Colorado and RLL lives in Dallas and aren't related.
@@gopher6532 it could be a long distance thing
*The Worlds's Most Dangerous Airport* "sounds scary."
*In Nepal* "Sounds serene."
Very true...
(I an nepali and I can confirm this comment)
yup.confirmed by nepali
lol
@Faceless_CS Look up some pics of Nepal, you'll get what I mean.
@@jothehen5067 Me too
Ma pani Nepali ho dai
God I can’t even imagine the survivors guilt that one pilots feels.
Ikr, how do you ever feel happiness again knowing you were responsible for 18 deaths
@@brianking2365 I think one should not say pilot responsible for all of deaths. That's not fair I guess
2:27 can we please take a moment to appreciate this mastery of video editing?
I didnt even see that lol
AHAHAHAHAHAH
Wendover won't appreciate it
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4:45 flights are cancelled 50% of the time because of the weather.
Covid-19: that's cute.
kudos to real life lore for saying edmund hilary was the first "confirmed" person to reach the summit... The sherpas have been in there for generations..
I think there was another mountain climber who was found dead near the summit, but I might be thinking of a different mountain.
@@woollypidgeon1948 Even if it were the same mountain...Near the summit is not as great as on the summit and living to tell the tale....
@@woollypidgeon1948 i gotchu mate. George Mallory and Andrew Irvine 1924
And for generations they knew that climbing it was pretty dumb. So they didn't.
@@Nexuzify Yeah. They'd have no real reason to attempt the summit, though I imagine at least one crazy did.
Having landed at Lukla back in 2013 for the trek to Everest Base Camp I can say from personal experience it was one of the most exhilarating way to begin an adventure anyone can hope for. All the passengers held our collective breath when we made the approach, as we can see straight into the pilots cabin area and share the pilot's view of the airport and runway as we descend. Not going to lie it was 50% excitement and 50% fear. Thankfully the pilots were top-notch, and they landed the plane with what seems to me as ease. I cannot speak highly enough of the pilots and flight crew that make this incredible journey day in and day out.
The most dangerous airport is actually Detroit Metropolitan airport, because passengers have to disembark in motion, since if the pilot stops the plane the wheels will be stolen before they know it.
Can't have shit in detroit
Lol
Here in Rio de janeiro is worse
Wendover Productions may want to have a word with you.
69th like
Why tho?
Wendover productions: Joshep I have been noticing that you have been uploading a lot of plane related videos
Real life lore: Yeah I have no other topic
Wendover productions: Understandable have a nice day
Next idea: The Insane Idea to Build a Bridge From Florida to The Bahamas
Or building a bridge to key west
“ for most people around the world” only about 1 in every 5 people have ever actually gone on a plane
Still makes it 1.4 billion people
I've never been on a plane
@Hotmilk not this year
Still flew over 100,000 miles this year. It’s what happens when you have an indispensable skill that requires you to be on site. Best year ever for flying since casual flyers are staying home.
Damn is that true? Flying seems like such a regular thing
Feel like I need to check my privilege 😔
Wow those crashes and loss of life are so tragic :( I'm honestly surprised there hasn't been more accidents though....awesome job to all the pilots out there landing and taking off at lukla
Imagine someone just coming in and dropping a phat A380 on the runway tho
You can drop one only in TIA in Nepal as of today lmao
Laughs in Microsoft flight sim
Swiss001
Moon airport is most dangerous
You can never catch a breath there
Original and underrated comment. Finally. Top marks
Oxygen tank
Didn't even watch it yet but I know it's gonna be in the Himalayas in Nepal lol
H
You were right
I actually thought it was in Tibet at first
barely any flights go over tibet - literally another one of these RLL videos
@@mansoorahmed1256 yea I was XD
I'm glad cuz it would've been embarassing if I was wrong lol.
RLL: Why this airport Runway is very dangerous to land.
People who plays War Thunder: "Pathe-" *Crash*
*Soft* *Landing*
+ *5*
On my ad frequency chart, War Thunder ranks as the 30th most common ad on the Internet with 45 ads since late May, ahead of Amazon and Voicemod but behind DocuSign and GoT: Winter is Coming.
@ShadowKing 7890 The game War Thunder gives you a small award each time you do a "soft landing", but they are very generous about what they count as a soft landing. I've had a plane which lacked any control (elevators, ailerons, and rudder all shot out), lost its landing gear, and was on fire that happened to hit the ground and skid for a bit before stopping, and got that award.
xD
@@jarredallen3228 I would call that a realtively soft landing given the circumstances
One time I completely messed up my landing and crashed into a tree slightly and still got that reward
After seeing your thumbnail I knew it will be about lukla. Thank you from Nepal🇳🇵🇳🇵
Great video (which I will watch in a minute).
LOL
You are a funny man
Imagine being the only 1 of 19 to survive, only to realise it was your mistakes and you caused all their deaths!! 🥵
Damn
Dude*
Atleast he survived
Think positively 😝
landed and departed to/from there 4 times, and the 2019 crash of a plane into the helicopter was the same plane + pilot we took one day prior of the crash to leave lukla airport again. it was very tragic and its uncanny to have videos on my phone of my flight, seeing the plane from inside and its pilot during their last successful flight :/
"No go-around procedure"
*Laughs in glider pilot*
Yep, pretty normal to be stuck there for a few days. Damn, that 2019 crash happened the day I was supposed to fly out, on my last trip. Ended up getting a helicopter down
Namaste 🙏 I'm from Nepal. Lots of love to all the viewers ♥️
I've flown into the airport in Ísafjörður, Iceland a few times and every time I still stare at the flight attendant to make sure the plane being totally sideways coming up to land is fine. It is surrounded by mountains and you feel like you could touch them as the plane makes a fast 180° turn to avoid hitting them. Also there is no room for error because at the end of the runway is water
I’ve flown in and out of this airport twice, the last time 3 years ago where it felt quite civilised. The experience taking off in 1992 was quite different. It was a dirt strip and about half as long. There were two wreckages of planes being cleaned up as I lined up to enter my plane. The local staff looked quite offended as I took photos! Take off involved the plane revving it’s engines to max with the brakes on. On release the plane kind of shot off, bouncing side to side and up and down. At the bottom of the strip it fell quite a way until adequate uplift was achieved. A real roller coaster ride! The video narration was very accurate imo
I love how you give pure information and interesting topics lol
Love your channel. Thanks for the great video.
Damn there are more Nepalese than I thought who watch these channel
K cha sathi haru
Nepal top, sab thikthaak
Hahaha
Fursad nai fursad chha.. ke garnu 😂😂😂
K cha mysterious gamer
Nepali honi bro😂
Kathmandu (Tribhuvan) airport: "How do you like me now?"
Paro International Airport in Bhutan: Ok, ok, landing here is super easy
@@jur4x
Talcha airport in Mugu district : ok....
Aiport in Nepal at 2845 masl.
People in La Paz at 3.600 masl with the airport at 4.000 masl: that's kind of cute!
Exactly what the mighty mountains of Nepal think about the midget mountains of Bolivia.
La Paz has a 4 km long runway.
Lukla isn't the highest altitude airport that services Sagarmatha National Park. Syangboche Airport is and it's closer to Everest. However hikers and mountaineers don't like it because it's bad for altitude acclimation. Hiking from Lukla to Namche is the preferred way to begin acclimation. Syangboche is mostly for helicopters now but it used to have regular flights.
Thank you for posting frequently
YES! Aviation content,thanks mate😍✈️
You should do one about the airport in Hong Kong, where the airplanes have to drop down between the skysrapers, so close that you can see people watching TV through their windows.
Kai Tak airport has been closed for decades now. And the landing route never went *between* skyscrapers
The method used to flatten the plateau is something even the Onion would consider absolutely ridiculous. And get it still worked.
Anything: exists
Nepal: alright but how can we make it kill someone
LMAO im sorry but this sent me 😭
being a nepali I fully agree.
@@yerischerries3010 hi
LOL
Erm,NO
Great video!
*RealLifeLore posts this video*
Wendover Productions: This town ain't big enough for the two of us...
I knew a lot about lukla before watching this video but RLL always has a way of making items that you have heard a lot about before still interesting to hear about many times over.
Really good editing my man
Flew to Lukla as a passenger when I climbed Everest. It's definitely challenging, but I've flown to a lot worse as a pilot.
Me normally: Airport x is the most dangerous airport in the world.
Me in an essay: 0:18 - 0:39
Th
Every crash is on youtube and
Nostalgia hit me as i remember every crash that was on the news. I was a child back then but still those memories.... God
In late 1985, I went trekking in Nepal and had the experience of landing at, and one week later taking off from, Lukla Airport (or more accurately, airstrip). Both flights were delayed for a day or two (I forget just how long) due to weather. They take it very seriously.
Coming into Lukla, I couldn’t see the airstrip until the last minute and I was quite sure we were heading straight into a mountainside. The air turbulence over that terrain did nothing for my confidence, either. I knew that missing the landing was a real possibility, and as it was, it was rough, even though the pilot hit it right. (This took place before Lukla was paved.)
Flying out, I recall a sickening feeling like my stomach dropping out of my abdomen when we left the ground just shy of the drop off into space after the downhill takeoff. But with a bit of a power climb, we were safely on our way back to Kathmandu.
I’ll never forget it, any more than I would ever forget spinning prayer wheels for the safety of all passengers and crews while in the region.
7:17: "...and you can learn all about-"
*Ok, I'm outta here*
We might have most dangerous airports but we also beautiful countryside and amazing people.
Do visit Nepal.
It’s always a good day when RLL uploads
Random trivia: the Disney actor Tenzing Norgay Trainor is the grandson of Tenzing Trainor.
Proud to say that i have been there multiple times! At least 2-3 times that I remember.
Wow
What were you doing the other times? Drinking? Inebriated?
6:52 “nobody has managed to land something bigger” *immediately shows a380* boots up flight sim: here goes nothing
Ahh !! Finally a video about something from our country. You LOVE to see it.
Ever heard of the Thimphu Airport in Paro , Bhutan ? It's not only dangerous to land and fly from , but even breathtakingly beautiful.
Please my dear indian, this airport has recieved a literal Title MOST DANGEROUS AIRPORT IN THE WORLD
Listen bro, paro airport is INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT and it is longer and more girth while
LUKLA airport NEPAL is in A MOUNTAIN
What's funny is seeing how Ubisoft borrowed a lot from this airport when making Far Cry 4's Kyrat Airport.
Well they did base the game in the same place.
@@vinayakondi9964Yeah you can tell Kyrat was mostly based off of Nepal.
Pilot: ok this is my last landing for my license
Fog: I'm gonna end this mans whole career
*Whole life
@@abinash2420 just "life" would do
Thans RLL, my mother is climbing Everest and you just dropped this video.... Well at least she landed safely the first time.
Just being a pilot in of itself is probably the most impressive and useful career out there
The transition to the sponsor should have been: The pilots are damn good at what they do, but, no matter how great a pilot is, nobody is as good as curiositystream
Hats off to Nepalese pilots 🇳🇵
- a fellow Nepali citizen
I took off from this airport once. Quite an experience!
This channel has been making videos since 2017 and until now nothing has changed, still history and information. Salut to this channel giving us info
I survived driving off this airport
On Farcry 4
The language ruined it in my opinion
@@lime4521 wut?
@@yungstallion2201it is in Hindi but in Nepal most of the people speak Nepali
RealLifeLore out here encroaching on Wendover Productions territory
Beautiful video
Love from Nepal😍😍😍😍
If you decide to search it up you should watch the landing videos of this airport there is multiple videos of the planes outright slamming straight into the wall at the end of the runway.
RealLifeLore might be turning into Wendover
*hes gotta have his weekly dose of planes*
my brother lives in florda so I live in us and he flies all the way here every summer
Wow this is amazing
I've been in and out of Lukla several times. Always a thrill.
Been there. It's like an Indiana Jones film. The year before I visited there was a plane crash and everyone on board died. Very cool but dangerous.
Fun fact: turn on airplane mode in a plane to help the plane get balanced to your destination.
Loved this new episode of Wendover Productions
As some one who landed at this airport in 2013, only 2 weeks before the terrifying avalanches that rocked the riegion, let me tell you that this was the scariest part of my entire trip
As a Nepali I want to tell you that we are not that weird
*-At least some of us*
Here where i live in Punjab india there are so many nepalis and they are amazing save Hinduism save our countries from islamism learn from Kashmir Nepal 🇮🇳🚩🇳🇵✌️
Thought they gonna land the corolla for demonstration
this should be on every pilot's bucket list
There are many airstrips in the mountains inland in Indonesia where you need to be certified for the individual strip to be allowed to take off/land on it because they're so technically difficult.
Dang, I was expecting the airport to the South Pole to be the most dangerous.
No one can land an A380?
"Swiss001 wants to know your location"
I was here 5 years ago. If you don't want to fly in you can actually take a bus most of way and walk to lukla from jiri. This is the original route that tenzing and Hillary took. You can also spend less time walking and take a jeep from/to saleri... just google it there's actually a secondary airport there that's less used. You can also do both routes round trip from Kathmandu and lukla will be the half way point to Everest. It adds many hard days to your trip if you go this way but the experience is unforgettable. You literally can see the biome transition from jungle to ice and rock.
Also there's actually a small path just below the beginning of the runway. You can wave to the pilots as they fly over you, if the plane fails to hit the run way then you're dead. it's intense to say the least.
Nice video.
"Steeper drop off than the World Trade center in New York is tall"
I see what you did there
I don’t get it, can you explain?
@@lookbehindyou2862 do you seriously not get it, its really obvious
@yeet boi is it a twin towers joke, call me dumb but I don’t get it
@@lookbehindyou2862 bruh
He was talking about the One World Trade Center though.
Lukla : exists
Swiss001 : I’m 10000 billion light years ahead of you
Lol ikr
You must be heard of Toncontin Airport, Tegucigalpa, Honduras in terms of approach. It has a reputation "most treacherous airport in world" due to difficult approach and crashes happened there. Pilots should execute a dramatic 45 degree turn after crossing mountains just minutes before prior touching the ground. Due to unusual steep, airport forces pilots to use more strip while takeoffs and landings than at sea level. and airport still uses old navigation equipment. Its a dangerous combination for any skilled pilot.
Been there. On approach we could see the pilots look at each other, grimace and then decide they would give it a go. In fairness they did a great job. The pilots of the plane that some of my friends were in, however, bailed, flee back to Kathmandu and decided to try again the following day.
Lukla's runway is really interesting to stand next to as planes land.
RLL mentions plane
Wendover : This means war
A Turtle approved the most dangerous airport.
a random dude approved this comment's approval
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@Barack Obama u cant do shit outside ur country haha
do u buy subs?
i saw you on the pacific ocean video.
Where I live now the nearest airport is "Mariscal Sucre International Airport" Elevation AMSL 2,400 m... but the runway is above 4 km. For the number of passengers and flights, the incidents are very low... but is normal to make two approximations to the airport.
I literally do a little dance whenever I see that you posted a new video
This video has a serious lack of Toyota Corollas.
Everest is a joke now. Rich people paying for bragging rights
wim could do it shirtless with no pure o2
Or maybe they like the experience of mountain climbing and challenging themselves?
Everest isn’t a joke. Even with today’s technology it is EXTREMELY hazardous and hard to go to the summit of the mountain. No helicopter or plane can get you there, you have to climb, and more than 95% of people who try to climb it die.
@@swargpatel7634 It is very dangerous and @Pete Smith's comment is ignorant, but it's more like 1 in 20 people who attempt to climb it die not 95% ;)
@@swargpatel7634 found the richer...
I’ve landed there.
My own experiences of it are... both short and long at the same time.
I went up in a party of about 30 people, split into about 15 adults and 15 children (the youngest of us had her 7th birthday 1 day before we reached base camp) in 2007. As the planes are so small, our party had to be split into two planes.
at about 10am, the first plane took off, and the second plane was coming in to land, supposed to take off 30 minutes later.
30 minutes later, we were kept in the airport, being told that the weather had degraded, and we were being kept until it cleared up.
I never knew what happend to the first flight, but it seems like they circled for a while, waiting to see if it would degrade further, then made the attempt to land scucessfully.
However, down on the ground, we had to wait for 5 more hours until the weather got better enough for the go-ahead to be given.
As for the actual landing, it’s.... short. there’s not a lot of excitement for it, because it’s over pretty quickly. But the airport itself is little more than a small hall, and surrounded by a few businesses.
Outside of that... It’s hard to explain how big these mountains are when you are up close. These mountains are practically cliffs, with narrow paths leading along them. and at the location where the airport is, you’ve got a stupidly steep slope leading down, and a stupidly steep slope leading up that disappear into the clouds.
Imagine going to Mount Everest to climb to the top but not even dying on the mountain.