Top 10 Most Dangerous Airports

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ProTraveller had a recent article about the “Top 10 Most Dangerous Airports” in the world. If you are not yet afraid of flying the videos in this article will fix that.

The top of the list is the old airport in Hong Kong (closed in 1998). Watching a 747 make a quick left onto the end of the runway just as it is landing makes one wonder who ever thought this was a good idea.

The Kai Tak Airport served as Hong Kong’s international airport from 1925 to 1998. This airport was notoriously hard to land at because of the maze of skyscrapers and mountains in the vicinity, frequent strong crosswinds and the fact that the runway was located in Victoria Harbor on a man-made strip of land. The approach to the world-famous runway 13 at Kai Tak involved grazing skyscrapers in a densely populated city, and then making a sharp right-handed turn immediately before the runway where one miscalculation could spell disaster. Not only was it tough for pilots to navigate the approach, but crosswinds made it even more difficult to keep the plane steady during, and after, the final 47° right-handed turn towards the runway. Surprisingly, there weren’t many plane crashes at Kai Tak, but there were plenty of close calls – mostly due to unstabilised landings.