Insane Airports

Insane Airports

If you think the average trip to an airport is madness, what you're about to see may completely change your mind. The pictures below are just a few of the world's most extreme and dangerous airports for taking off and landing, with the kind of  runways I never realised actually existed until recently!





The first insane airport I came across (which inspired this post) was Gibraltar Airport, shown in the picture below. As you can see from the picture, it has a main road cutting right across the middle of a runway, so for obvious reasons they have to close that road whenever a plane is landing or taking off from that airport.

 Gibraltar Airport

 

Next, a rather strange Scottish airport located on a beach on the Island of Barra, with 3 runways laid out in a triangle.

Barra Airport is the only one in the world to use a beach as a runway for scheduled flights and flight times vary with the tide since the runways vanish under the sea at high tide.

 Barra Airport

 

In 2010, The History Channel rated Lukla Airport in Nepal as the most dangerous airport. 'Situated at a height of 2900 meters, its landing strip has a high mountain on one end and a thousand meter drop on the other'. This airport is best known as being the starting point for most people who climb Mount Everest.

Lukla Airport

And to end this post, an Airport that I can only imagine must be rather tiny based on the size of this tiny runway. Plus I just saw a video of a plane landing here on Youtube and there was so little space I was convinced the wing was about to take out a lamp post at the side of the runway but somehow it managed not to! Gustaf 3 (St Bart) Airport, located on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy, is fairly dangerous for both pilots and passengers...

  'The corridor in which the runway has been built is incredibly narrow, and planes come frighteningly close to hitting the slopes of the adjacent upland area, or plummeting into the ocean. There are warning signs asking the careless people not to take sun bathes near the runway'.

Gustaf 3 (St Bart) Airport

  

Personally I don't think the Gibraltar one looks too bad, as long as traffic is being stopped for the planes using the runways, but I wouldn't like to visit the other airports listed in this post....I don't mind flying generally but I'd be pretty terrified landing on such dodgy runways!


This blog post was inspired by looking through a collection of photos of things that claimed they would turn my world upside down, which they completely failed to do, with most of the photos being either very boring or very fake looking, but a few did get my attention, including one of an airport with a main road cutting through the runway, which prompted me to look it up and check if that was a real, active airport. It turned out it was and I ended up sitting reading about loads of other crazy airports before deciding to create this blog post.



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Also, if you found this interesting I'd recommend doing a Google search on extreme and dangerous airports as there are loads more to read about!