Knot-in-your-throat airports to land at.....

[Gabi Hayes]

56. is that the one where they take their time cleaning up the

crashes that happen there all the time....just pieces of planes all over the sides of the runway

can't remember where it was, but I think it was this one....it was on some PBS special and they were trying to fly out....pretty sure it was in the Himalayas/Karakoram someplace

Lulka, nepal....only one kind of plane lands there, and some helicopters

http://www.jaunted.com/story/2007/1/22/163551/923/travel/World%27s+Most+Dangerous+Airports%3A+Lukla+Airport%2C+Nepal%2C+LUA





''When you take off, you go DOWNHILL, and then the runway just disappears into the valley down below. If you don't get enough speed, you drop until you get lift and then hopefully get back up again.''



lots of cool vids at Lukla here:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Takeoff+from+Lukla&oq=Takeoff+from+Lukla&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=291781l291781l0l294015l1l1l0l0l0l0l156l156l0.1l1l0