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  1. 14th November 2010, 09:53 PM #1
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    25 of the World's Scariest Airports

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    25 Of The World's Scariest Airport Runways
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  2. 15th November 2010, 07:47 AM #2
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    wow!! no way id be on a flight to the top three on that list...
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  3. 15th November 2010, 07:57 AM #3
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    there are some interesting airports there... I have to say that whoever made that compilation hadn't had the opportunity of considering some of the airports/strips in PNG for inclusion
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  4. 15th November 2010, 08:41 AM #4
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    done 7 of them, but there quite a few othere not so nice ones.

    CH CH in NZ for example, china and russia are both intresting places etc
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  5. 15th November 2010, 07:25 PM #5
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    Did Kai Tak once, last one down in a Typhoon.
    Did a seawards approach and had abort and go around for a land approach in a Cathay 747?.
    I swear we were looking up into the blocks of flats and were still turning over the perimeter.

    The Typhoon hit halfway down the runway.
    Very exciting.
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  6. 15th November 2010, 08:30 PM #6
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    Never flown abroad. Certainly some place are more interesting than others to land at. Worked in W. A at a mine with it`s own air strip. Could handle a 40 seat plane. Pilot located the air strip by sight. One time he almost over shot. Did not bother to come around. Just corked screwed his way down. Poor air hosty was spread eagle across the rear bulk head squealing. Quite a few,including my self got blood noses from the sudden decent. Came out of the spiral just in time to land with a fair old thud.
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  7. 15th November 2010, 09:48 PM #7
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    Mmmm.....Mogadishu doesn't seem to rate:

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    Saw these marks down at the very...very....very end of the Mogadishu runway about 4mths ago...God knows who made them and what type of aircraft it was...but, how much of the runway do you need to bloody use?




    Looking at the approach I can only imagine how low the aircraft was..and how close this incident was to being an accident...crikes!


    Mogadishu is the only strip that I know of that can currently be hit by both direct and in-direct fires. Earlier this year I was witness to three 82mm mortar rounds aimed at an un-marked UN passenger craft departing.
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  8. 16th November 2010, 12:02 AM #8
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    Hit hard unload and take off without turning around looks like someone wanted to leave in a hurry wonder why
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  9. 16th November 2010, 12:49 AM #9
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    I've done Osaka, twice last year ... didn't seem scary at all - it's not the airports but rather the airline you choose to go with; that is of far greater concern to me.

    Was on an Air Mauritius flight out of the island back in 05 and we took off ... next thing I see is fuel being dumped enmasse from both wings. Seems the landing gear would not retract which explained all the groaning hydraulic noises we were listening to for 15 mins whilst banking in circles! So 40 mins later we landed with a stuck nose gear and hit so hard that it broke the nose wheel ... we were transferred to another aircraft. Only incident I have ever had in a lifetime of flying ...

    My mother flew for our national carrier for over a decade and she always told me that the most dangerous time in any flight is take off and landing -



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