15 DANGEROUS Plane Landings - Great Pilots

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Saba, Dutch Caribbean #1, amazing! 😁

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

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...

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.

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

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!

@6:35 Gisborne is a tiny little place (35k residents) 500 km southeast of Auckland on the lonely lower east coast of the north island. That they keep showing pictures of Auckland is strangely misleading. Also if you pronounced the town's name like that they would laugh you off the street ;-)

THANK YOU for making a retraction!!

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

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

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.

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

Gisborne, New Zealand, the subject of the railway through the runway in this feature, is a rural town hundreds of kilometers away from Auckland, New Zealand's largest city.. The article is confusing the two locations with its coverage . Its like doing an article about a runway in Wyoming, and showing the Empire Statue and Statue of Liberty in NY for context.