[The Free Engineer]

That didn’t look so scary to me. Go watch some of the videos of planes landing at the old Hong Kong airport. Some of those are scary.

[yarddog]

They had a show on TV about the world’s scariest airports.

There were a few which really did require a good pilot. Hong Kong was one but there were some others too.

[stormer]

Yep. Or down the canyon into Queenstown NZ.

[Celtic Conservative]

Kai Tak. They’ve since closed it. mostly for that reason, but also because of land prices. The new airport is built on reclaimed land.

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[DUMBGRUNT]

Some of those are scary.

Each year as I get older, air travel becomes more scary!

Plus it has been years since I jumped out of a perfectly good aircraft!

[WorkingClassFilth]

Try the old Teguchigulpa, Honduras airport. You dropped from the sky when they reversed engines in flight.

Totally insane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_z5HtME9n8

[FreeReign]

That didn’t look so scary to me.

I agree.

It wasn't an easy landing, but those kind of conditions do happen now and then and experienced pilots make those kinds of landings.