(#1) Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport
- Saba, Netherlands
Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport is located in Saba in the Caribbean Islands. If a traveler wants to fly into Saba, they will have to land at Juancho E. Yrausquin, as it is the only airport on the island.
It features the shortest commercial runway in the world, measuring a mere 1,312 feet. There is absolutely no room for error since the runway ends with high cliffs on both sides, and the Caribbean Sea awaits at the bottom of the cliffs.
(#7) In Antarctica, Runways Are Made Out Of Ice
The sea ice runways in Antarctica are made entirely out of ice. Pilots must take great caution to avoid a heavy landing or else they risk sinking into the ice. Additionally, in Antarctica, the winter season brings 24 hours of darkness. When factoring in wind conditions and snow, a pilot sometimes has to do a blind landing on a slippery surface.
"When winds get to be 20 or 30 mph, it creates so much blowing snow that you can't see the runway," Air National Guard Colonel Ronnie Smith said, after flying a dozen seasons's worth of risky landings. "It doesn't take much to create a white-out."
(#11) Madeira Airport
- Funchal, Portugal
Madeira Airport in the autonomous Portugal region - situated between the Atlantic and mountains - is considered one of the most terrifying places in the world to land an airplane. It is so difficult to land there that pilots need special training. Skilled aviators have to deal with high winds, turbulence, and an extremely short runway - and this is after it underwent multiple extensions.
One of these runway extensions came in 1977 after a Boeing 727 "plunged off the end of the runway," according to the Daily Mail.
(#4) Princess Juliana International Airport
- Saint Martin (Island)
The runway at Princess Juliana Airport in the Caribbean island of St. Martin is less than half the length of the average international airport runway. However, because St. Martin is such a popular tourist destination, major aircraft regularly fly into Princess Juliana.
Aircraft cruise into the airport directly above crowded Maho Beach. However, the trickiest part of the flight occurs immediately before landing, when an airplane must circle back and around over the beach to avoid the mountains.
(#9) Gibraltar International Airport
- Gibraltar, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories
Imagine having to close down a major four-lane road every time an airplane has to take off or land. Tis is exactly the case at Gibraltar International Airport - located in a small British enclave at the tip of southern Spain - where traffic gets stopped on Winston Churchill Avenue for about 10 minutes when planes take off and land.
Thankfully for locals, the number of flights at Gibraltar remains relatively low.
(#6) Narsarsuaq Airport
- Nuuk, Greenland
Landing at Narsarsuaq Airport in Greenland is so perilous that only pilots who have full knowledge of the weather patterns and local terrain are allowed to land there. A pilot must fly up a fjord on their runway approach and navigate through heavy winds, turbulence, and often snowy or icy weather.
The conditions are so difficult that nighttime takeoffs and landings are not allowed at Narsarsuaq.
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