Landing in Greenland

[Nevilledog]

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[Lochloosa]

1. Rated in the top 10 of most dangerous landings.

[Nevilledog]

2. What must the others be like?

[Lochloosa]

4. Here's one list. Yours isn't on it.

https://interestingengineering.com/top-10-scariest-airports-in-the-world

[Nevilledog]

5. Adding to my list of places in never flying to.

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. I've flown in and out of the St. Maarten airport a number of times.

It's not bad if you're in a smaller plane (deHavilland Twin Otter 19-passenger plane), but I've also landed there in 737s that have to turn abruptly when the runway ends.

The Saba Airport is very scary, though I've always arrived they by boat. Saba's single road was built by hand because most engineers laughed at the idea of building one there. Same with the airport.

Two of the scary airports that I've ever taken off from were Hong Kong's old Kai Tak. You flew so close to apartment buildings that you thought one was going to take a wing off the plane.

Then there's Chicago's old Meigs Field. It occupied a manmade island in Lake Michigan.

[central scrutinizer]

9. I bet Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is one of the safest

NASA paid to expand it as an emergency landing spot for the space shuttle. Really wide, really long, no mountains close, no ice, no snow.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. I would have a permanent pucker

[safeinOhio]

6. I love peeking in the windows when landing at San Diego.

Don't forget, no landing or taking off after mid-night.

[Corgigal]

8. Run way does seem kind of short.

However, pilots did wonderful.