Himalaya: "Lukla" World's Most Dangerous Airport
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- čas přidán 14. 01. 2022
- Himalaya: "Lukla" World's Most Dangerous Airport. Located at 9,000, incredible short, the runway is steeply inclined so the planes can get enough speed to take off. Often closed and even when open, it's only safe-ish a few hours a day.
Mad props to the pilots that fly into that airport
The landing strip the size of my driveway 😎👍🏽
And name of this airport Tenzing-Hillary Airport n sir Hillary was from your country New Zealand
Parking spots are numbered 1, 2, 3 & 4 I believe.
I see what you did there: mad "props". 😄
You must have a huge house if your driveway is that long!!
To land like that and then pick it's space in the car park
That steep slope to help you slow on landing and accelerate on takeoff. Lifesaver!
Still need to have good brakes.
Ahaha as a pilot i will say...no..maybe half the time when the wind is in that direction..the other times it works against you...
@@rbd104 ....and good balls but the brakes are more important 😂😂
I would love to land there with a little sports plane like a Cessna or so i wonder how thin the air will be there...
@@rbd104 one would assume all fucking aircraft come with "good brakes" or we'd all be in trouble, wouldn't we?
@@AB-bu9go yes they all come with good brakes when new😎 but then it's a matter of maintenance and a cost factor to keep them in good shape and there can be the problem...Saving is on top instead of safety sometimes...🤪🤪
Nothing less than perfect approach standards will do. All pilots landing here have my utmost respect and admiration. Hats off to them.
💪 ✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️ 👌
One thing to remember is that this airfield is so high(thin air) that airplanes need to fly faster than normal when landing
Oh wow this is amazing!! I am just thinking of how I would be screaming until we land!!. Lol,lol. I’m scared to death of flying!!😮😮😮
Wouldn't it be safer and faster dropping passengers with parachutes?
And have a much shorter runway to land on
He landed with a significant tailwind
That's what may have occured on the recent tragedy, she was landing too slow.
Pilot is a beast. He even Taxied with such confidence. I'd pee my pants
I wonder how many countless hours these ballsie pilots spend in the flight simulator before taking the actual plunge, so to speak. 😲
They give them a special training, and not everyone can fly there, I saw that time ago on Discovery Channel, there's only few pilots who can fly there
Wow..haha
@@brianwood7480like you could do it buddy. There’s no simulator for these; maybe in flight school there’s a bit of training for checklists and procedures on some flight sims, but most of this is done in the air with the instructor to get a certification. And then every time you have to fly in focused, follow proper checklists, and do everything correctly because if you mess up, there are no second chances. So before you criticize this job from your sofa, think about the sacrifices and focus these pilots have to make. Simulators are no real life. Good for procedures, yes, but the real pressure is never gonna be there in simulators.
people could admire those planes and the mechanical technology but with that kind of airport,pilot skill would always make a difference.
Oh yes ! No wind, nice weather, it's ok 👌.
Now imagine bad conditions ? ...
The pilot is all.
GREAT 👍
totally he/she pilot is a homeboy...
You know it!
That was a beautiful landing
Well done to the pilot
It’s a daily work for them so normal things for them but a single mistake can collapse all
can tell you im supprised he even went for the butter on a field this short
.. and he's got a tail wind too, with the windsock pointing the exact wrong direction.
Great skill and finesse. 👍
What does that mean bro
@@anandhapadmanabanm2980 the wind is blowing towards the direction of the runway from the airplane. That means he will have a higher ground speed compared to the air speed. Hence a higher speedlanding. You usually want a head wind during takeoff and landing.
@@arnavsadhu whoa never thought about that before... Thanks
@@arnavsadhu explained very well , thanks 🙏
The color sections of the sock tell wind speed. Each band : red, white, are 10 knots. If a 30 knot wind, 3 sections are blown standing straight out, the tail end dooping down. I
Here, the whole thing is standing out.
Taking off is even more impressive because the end of the runway is a big dropoff
Drop off... Like, off the end of an Aircraft Carrier? 🤔😂
@@robertweekley5926 Kind of. It is a deep glacial valley with a 30-40% slope. People literally cheered and clapped when we safely took off because the week before, a bird got sucked into the engine on takeoff and all 19 people on board died.
@@robertweekley5926 exactly .💯
@@robertweekley5926 yeah but without the ejection seat.
@@JohnSmith-sh1zg - "election seat" like "Biden?"
Maybe you missed that "Typo?" And meant "Ejection Seat?"
I've always had a subtle desire to see the Himalayas, it's still there, but no rush.
Lol 😂 after seeing the airport I totally understand
@@RockerMtl1 🤣🤣🤣
Remember on the 70's when the plane crashed and the folks left HAD to eat the dead folks in order to make it and somehow some passengers climbed over mountains ect and found a man fishing on the other side of a river.
If that man haddn't been there they'd never would have been rescued.
@@ghostcityshelton9378 That was fifty years ago this year - 1972 was when it happened when the plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby squad crashed in the Andes. The distinguished writer and novelist Piers Paul Read wrote an acclaimed book about it called Alive and it was that book on which the Hollywood film Alive was based. There are documentaries on the whole remarkable story here on CZcams.
That was a thing of beauty. The rapid touchdown and brake with that wind at his tail? Magnificent.
You are a pilot or you are not. This guy is definitly one. 👏👏👏👏👏👍
Only a small number of pilots are licensed to land and take off here.
Clearing the mountain then dropping immediately hundreds of feet to get to the landing strip . Crazy
Indeed , thank you.!
Anything else that makes this the WORLD'S , most daaangerous airport ...
I don’t remember descending into Lukla that much. We flew level, banking around the bends in the valley with mountains on either side then flew pretty much level into the up sloping ramp of Lukla’s airstrip . A dozen passengers, one pilot and a stewardess who only had one job. Give each of us a hard candy half way to Lukla, apparently to keep our teeth from chattering too loudly.
That's what the military pilots going into Afghanistan had to deal with on a regular basis. Only they were flying those huge C-130 transport airplanes
I’d think takeoff would be really scary 😦
Dutch Harbor Alaska isn’t too safe either. Thought I was gonna die every time I flew in or outta there.
That’s for sure we have come in sideways a on a few landings coming into Dutch
After a ton of research, I planned a trip once for someone looking to go to Dutch Harbor for work. This person refused to fly, so I found the ship route there.
I was explaining that the ship would leave on [certain day] and must not be missed, because the options otherwise were very limited.
They asked me, in complete seriousness, "They don't have a Bus that goes there?" 🤷
@@annthrockmorton1517 😂😂😂 I’m surprised they could even get hired anywhere.
Flown into Dutch Harbor, Unalaska there twice from Cold Bay and we did a go around I looked out the twin engine Saab window and saw how close we were to the mountain I must have peed on myself twice🤣
Before they built a new one Singapore had the most scary. My dad flew in several times.
You don't mean Kai Tak Hong Kong do you?
And Kai..........airport was / is danger city? How come?
@@thomaswebster6349 Kai Tak airport was dangerous because of close proximity to high rise buildings surrounding on all sides and incredibly heavy traffic. Requires precision flying by big jets. I remember flying in there many years ago and thinking it was an accident waiting to happen. The new airport is much safer.
@@zahimiibrahim3602Also, on final approach before touchdown, the plane had to descend between high-rises and do a 90° turn, still descending, onto the runway. This was 747s etc flying between buildings.
@@thomaswebster6349 Also, on final approach before touchdown, the plane had to descend between high-rises and do a 90° turn, still descending, onto the runway. This was 747s etc flying between buildings. Certainly a contender for the title "World's most dangerous airport"
Airport in the middle of a beautiful nature ♥️
The most dangerous airport? Well that sounds like a job for DeHavillands Twin Otter. Oh, you got that covered.
What a fabulous plane. Has to be one of the safest aircraft to fly so far.
Interesting there are no Caravans or Kodiaks. Could be a space problem.
Yup, nothing like a twotter. Canada's pride
LET 410 UVP-E
It's not a Twin Otter but a Czech Let L410!
Flew in Twin Otters around the North Slope in AK....dependable planes. Pilots were fearless....whiteouts were disconcerting.
Flown in there twice what a ride!!
look over the pilots' shoulder. They fly literally directly at the Mountain and flare at the end of the runway. The flights are continuous while the weather is clear- about a 4-5 hour window in the morning. But sometimes no window so no flights that day. On my way out there had been no window for 2-3 days and about 100- 150 people were backed up. The planes just kept coming back from Kathmandu empty until the backup was cleared.
There had been a wreck the day I hiked in from Yamse Bazzar. A Sherpa pilot lost his way into the Yamse Bazzar air port and nose planted his Pilatus airplane into the side of the mountain.
Yep, dangerous flying up there
No room for mistakes on landing or take off. Either one would be potentially deadly.
The plane is L410 Turbolet in The Czechoslovakia.
One of the best thing happened in my life is: I brought up in Himalayas- “The Land of God” 🙏
Yes There's The "Hindu Kush" Mountain Range Named By A Ancient Relative 0f Mine Explorer Who Save A King Life 0nve Appond A Time... From Bad Guys Trying To Take The Kings Life.
A Man Name "Kush" With His Club Took 0ut Two Men And The Third Man Ran Away. The King Ask My Relative What Kind 0f Reward Would You Enjoy Having.
My Relative Ask The King To Name That Mountain Top And Valley "Kush". Later We Help Settle "Kushan Empire" (400BC-200AD) 0ld Hindu India. Tibet And The Chinese Mongo Ruler's And Holy Monks Settle That Part 0f 0ld Northern India (Today Country 0f Afghanistan; Pakistan And Kasmier)
M.Kusmirowicz Now KUSH
@@michaelkush1385 very neat story. Thank you for sharing it.
Yemen, Seria, Iraq millions of children die of starvation and war. God's land too. He seems to have dropped the ball there. But it's nice for the mind to live in a fantasy world that God is good.
@@BigB932 Lucky You Still Have A Beautiful Airport and You Help People Every Ray.0f Light In Every Day....!
Everyone Needs A Proper Place At Call home/ Enough Food/ Job/ Positive 0ut Look 0n Life...!
My Family Left Poland After WW-1 for Better Life In Canada---Then American. Becaus Everyone me Wanted A Better Life.
All The Countries You
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That's not fair.
So so so so so butefool video rely very very nice video👍👍👍
I landed/ took off out of Lukla in the late 90's when it was still gravel. On the way on I sat in the front passenger seat and could
Same here in 1997... People and animals walking on the runway; didn't look like an airport then 🙄
I dunno if it's still there, but there was the wreckage of a crashed airplaine at the end of the runway, for years. Every landing aircraft would see that crashed plane coming in.
Hahahahahahha.....superb!!!! Why you added this info... im curious...
Yeah, the bent prop is still down at helicopter pad.
I thought the wrecked plane was a modern art sculpture. Oops!
Looking at the tail number of the plane in this video (9N-AMH) it appears to be the same plane that was destroyed when it crashed into the helicopter pad on April the 14th 2019.
Maybe it was the same wreckage? Or was that wreackage there before 2019?
If I was that pilot, that helicopter would make me twitchy.
The helo is there if you screw up if I recall
The one in St Barth in the French West Indies (South East of Anguilla ) is also ´ not too bad ‘ in this category !
I would love to do a round trip on that one. I experienced many simulated combat landings and take offs in Military aircraft; this would be the real thing.
Bucket list top 10.
@rancid Pitts •
Thank you for your service, and that you risked your life for us just landing in dangerous place , that is something I wouldn't dare , it would be too scary for me , and with my heart too weak !
There is need for men like you to risk their life to protect others, but you're the man of your word since you sworn your oath !
Thank you so much !
@@rolandboeing7477 I only did a couple of real combat landings in Vietnam, the remainder were simulated, but all were in a C130. My service career spanned 26 years. Scared? everybody is scared until something deadly happens, then I have no time to waste on scared. When I was sure I was safe I threw up every time. In desert Storm my job became not to Look sacred even when I was. That is the duty of an old salt who has been there done that. My troops took comfort that they thought I had seen worst than what they were seeing at the moment.
My pleasure, You are Welcome, I was glad to do it.
Combat landings suck lol. Literally feels like you're crashing into the ground nose first then at the last second you feel the pull up then the hard landing.
@@billyyank5807 Yes they do, but they are a whole lot better when viewed from the Cockpit. That beats the Rollercoaster from Hell. The C130 is built to do that daily through out it's life.
Woo hoo! Lets ride it again dad.
Thank you for serving our country! I'm sorry for how people are acting and taking the freedom, that you fought to protect, for granted! You will always be a hero!
I flew into this airport.
When I was there in the early 90s the runway was just dirt. No paving whatsoever. To me taking off was far scarier because they overloaded the plane with expedition gear so when we reached the edge of the runway we dropped 1000 feet before the plane started to ascend.
Similar for me at Tumlingtar airport in '92.
Yes I was going to say how highly impressed I am at the fact they got all that asphalt up the mountain. Did they use helicopters I would imagine?
Nice…I’ll stick to Toronto International and such. To my share of risks and made stupid mistakes during my first five years of service as a Mountie in isolated Canadian outposts. Retired now…I sit comfortably and watch my grandchildren, two of them wish to be “Mounties” too! Oh boy…
@DemonKKKRats Cheat & Hate Blacks Great name you've got there! FJB!
Wooow 😳
Professionell Pilot at work👍
Helpful the wind was in his favor. Thanks for sharing that prospective of that airport awesomeness 👌
A headwind is best, but here it at least was a straight tailwind.
Perfect landing
That was a good landing.
Pure skills and nerves of steal!!!! Those winds .. updrafts coming off those mountains and the head winds coming in .. Jesus!??!!!
That pilot has HUGE Brass Cajones!! You know how hard it is to fly at those altitudes?!! There’s little air for the propeller to grab onto
"Cojones!!"
Perfect reason why we need civilian tilt rotors.The AW-609 is coming soon.
"You gotta go real low to land this baby..............actually not at this airport you dont"
Those engines sound awesome when the pilot full reverse on the props!!
You should have heard it from inside that small 14-passenger Otter. Yes, quite impressive.
@@PCTscout It's a Czech Let L410 not a Twin Otter.
Wowwwwwww amazing very nice to the cliff OMG
Scenery is unreal 😲 😮
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That looks almost as dangerous as backing into the Kroger on.Vine St. in downtown Cincy.
I don't even know where that is or what it looks like, but I laughed when I read it. Good comedy is understood even when it's not. Kudos.
With a massive tailwind, landing in an airport the size of a small bus stand. Mad respect
Gotta love the short run ways and the good old plane car parks right beside the houses.
Some of the most dangerous airfields in the world are in Papua New Guinea. Try flying off into a cloud filled valley and timing your ascent and turns.
Now that is just plain crazy, but there is just no other option.
Civil Vstol is coming....
And the runways are usually muddy and slippery
Uhh, I'll pass. That is a little too adventurous for me 😲
A friend of mine - a missionary now retired, built a number of those airports over the years he was there - long before video cameras, much less digital "GoPros" I remember watching old 35 mm slide shows - today I get to see many of them on a weekly basis watching the CZcams channel of a young missionary pilot flying turboprop Kodiak - search for missionary bush pilot - you might even get to see the runways you remember
Instrument Rating !
Insane! Y'all! 😲🤠
OMG, WOW, SUPERB landing
Beautiful place
Its like landing on an aircraft carrier.
Except hopefully the run way is not moving too 😂😂
A Carrier docked next to a mountain. You have to fly over the moutain first. With the winds not cooperating. Much respect to that pilot.
Reminded me of Far cry 4 Airport
Ahora hay que darle como francotirador jajaja
Came to comment the same.
That reminds me when I landed long time ago in a regular commercial plane in Bucaramanga, Colombia.
I landed here in about 1972 when it was a rough gravel strip. As we approached the pilot pointed out the crashes rusting just below the lip of the landing strip. The hotshot pilots wore leather racing gloves. No go arounds here ever. Extra fun!
Damn, short runway. 😁
Looks like the worlds safest airport IMO. No traffic
OUTSTANDING 😃😃. Mad props to the pilot.
That Reverse Thrust is what impressed Me that was Awesome 👌
Landing on a aircraft carrier is a piece of cake for this commercial pilots lol
WRONG !!!
Check out Madeira Airport, very similar
The elevation must be 11,000 ft plus. What a crazy place to have an airport.
What a crazy place to have humans......
Beautiful
That ISNT the worst airport! Try landing in CAMBODIA That's wild.
You haven’t seen the other end of the runway…
That's awesomeness! Y r u there? R u vacationing or hiking Everest maybe? That would b CRAZY living in that place! Talk about scary, that's the middle of nowhere 🤷🏻
Just another day in the park!!! Good short firld landing by the way!!!!
That was a perfect landing I wish I was A pilot 🙌 awesome view
imagine an A380 landing there 🤣
Once, only! 🙄🥴
It’s Kyrat airport, one of lesser known parts of FC4.
Figured someone was going to mention it
It's Tenzing Hillary Airport in Nepal
What stuff are you smoking @Greg W 😂😂
It's clearly the Himalayan mountains 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
@@sumitadhikari5126 👀 How dare you question my comment 🤣
@@gregw4303 it's not a question ....it is a statement
You can't just replace original location with game
@@sumitadhikari5126 😑
This looks incredible watching from Texas
Unbeliveble !!!!! 😳👍🏻👏🏻
That runway is shorter than me
I've flown into more dangerous airports.
What a beautiful day !
I don't get out much so the only way I can see the world through my phone or my television so you never knew it's out there thanks for sharing
Very beautiful ❤️ God bless you jai mata di
Wow from Nepal 😘😍🙏🙏🇳🇵🇳🇵
Akhand Bharat 🎉Ye Sab Jagah Hindustan ki h ❤
Kuchh samay baad Fir Wapis Akhand Bharat Hoga ❤🎉🎉🎉
Very Nice airport🥰👍
Great pilot, great plane
That's piece of cake compares some "airport" in remote village at Papua's Mountain...😉
Nicely shot ❤ Salute to the pilots ❤
Here is where pilots get graded immediately. You make it, good job.
🌹🌹🌹 .
Great ... 👍👍👍
🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 🙏🙏🙏 💐💐💐
Kudos to all those true pilots who can land on a postage stamp!!! Still have serious goose bumps!!!
Tailwind landing 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽
Good job.exelent.Buen trabajo amigos.
Excellent place
Hima-landa! The world's most daaaaangerous airport!
Amazing flying thank you 😀😼😺😸
Skillful landing
Also beautiful place thanks for sharing guys.!!!
Kool....guess it's good an 18 wheeler wasn't traveling up the highway.🚛🚕
So precise even on a Tailwind approach
Fantástico, simplesmente fantástico ...
Good landing Happy 2022
Deus vai preparar pra eu ir neste aeroporto um dia. Incrível está lugar.
Ohoooooo it’s Nepal 🇳🇵 I love Nepal 🇳🇵 Jai Shree Ram
Engineering masterpiece
La destreza del piloto, increíble. Felicitaciones
Omg what a great pilot 👩✈️
Wow, such a great landing, and so isolated. What a lovely place ❤️
Wow. Beautiful place