15 DANGEROUS Plane Landings - Great Pilots

The most dangerous landings from some of the most dangerous airports in the world. These sure are some great pilots! I hope you all enjoy! Let us know down below some topics you'd like us to cover next week!

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[QqJcrsStbt]

My memories are of the 'heart-attack approach' into the old Kai Tak. Never thought a 747 could bank that far over, looking into the hold of a fishing boat from a passenger seat and waving to a lady on her balconey! Had a crabbed landing at Bristol, clear view down the whole length of the runway, bounced twice but otherwise good.
Dad flew B-24's in and out of various Bluie West/Bluie East runways for several years (many, many times) during the early '40s. I think it was turn left up the fjord for a cliff or right for a runway then a cliff.

[zacharding]

Top Fives, you do understand that the words "landings" and "airports" mean different things, right?

[shawnstrode]

The first maneuver we learned if flight school was slipping and grab tracking. It gives you confidence and good stick and rudder training. We had to learn because of the crazy wind speed and patterns over the practice field.

[CRAFT]

I heard that one of those short runway mountain airports have an additional factor: you can't take off from your original airport without authorization from the mountain airport. It's to verify that there is parking space or another plane isn't taking off and will be in the same mountain pass.

[mindyvaughn]

You guys are so good at this. These pilots all need a raise. God Bless them and you.💖

[alaskahelo]

Could you put some more commercials in there? I mean, I simply cannot get enough of them.

[saschazorn]

For all the Simmers, here is a short list of all the Airports in this Video:
14. Paro Airport (VQPR) 0:55
13. Courchevel Altiport (LFLJ) 1:34
12. Gibraltar International Airport (LXGB) 2:18
11. Narsarsuaq Airport (BGBW) 3:08
10. Barra Airport (EGPR) 3:45
9. Matekane Air Strip (FXME) 4:40
8. Congonhas Airport (SBSP) 5:40
7. Gisborne Airport (NZGS) 6:35
6. Tioman Airport (WMBT) 7:24
5. Madeira Airport (LPMA) 8:16
3. Tenzing–Hillary Airport (VNLK) 10:56
1. Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport (TNCS) 13:59

[zabaleta]

That's Gisborne airport but the city shown is Auckland.

[NoMatterDesign]

Glad you included Madeira island airport in this top 15. Extra points for correctly saying Portuguese island and not Spanish. Not many foreign people actually know Portugal is a sovereign country...

[testando]

2:01 What a sound! Dis guy right here always watch the plane video from here with my rock playlist crancked to 11. Metallica, Delta Parole, ACDC etc. AWESOME!

[kgblaugh]

great video,
Have had the chance to take off at Lukla in 1987, the runway then was only a mud strip!

[NovaAviation]

Minus 10 brain cells every time the word "tarmac" is used

[trend]

I landed in Lucla ( Nepal) few years ago heading to EBC... It was quite excitement...

[maartenj.vermeulen]

Saba, Dutch Caribbean #1, amazing! 😁

[chrisbaker]

That airport where the planes go over the edge of a cliff reminds me of watching B-52s take off for South East Asia from Guam. Loaded with a maximum load of bombs the would lift off and go over the edge of the 600 foot drop off and disappear from view below the cliff only to reappear about 10 miles out as they finally were able to climb high enough to be seen from the runway.

[pyootchnich]

Just the right amount of information. I’m new to your videos but I’m very impressed and I’m a new sub. The description of the input the pilot gives was just right. Not too much not too little.

[TheHomeOfMusicTT]

So let’s cover this so first the title says dangerous landings then he said difficult landings then there isn’t any landings and now he is giving a list of airports that are scary to land at.

[robcampbell]

I like how you talk about landing at McMurdo Station and then you show a video of Scott Base. They also no longer land on sea ice, it is all on semi permanent ice shelf now. And the Pegasus flight that crashed there didn't sink into the ocean, it is still there on the ice shelf and McMurdo Station does tours out to it.

After that it does feel a lot like landing on a normal runway.

[aliraf]

Great video, the lack of go round option is scary.

[mervyncave]

My son was chief air traffic controller for Gisborne before going to Sydney Australia, The city shown is Auckland pop 1million not Gisborne pop 37, 000. No trains presently operate to Gisborne. The line south to Napier was badly damaged in a storm 2010 and deemed uneconomic to repair