Most Dangerous Tiny Airport Of The World|Lukla Nepal
Channel: MTV TRAVEL
Date: 2021-05-23

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Well Come to my channel MTV Travel in this video Most Dangerous Tiny Airport Of The World|Lukla Nepal i will show you a short summary along with view of this small but most dangerous airport of the world Lukla or Tenzing-Hillary airport which is located in a small town Lukla of Chaurikharka, Nepal.
Its geographical existence makes this airport one of the world's most dangerous airports.
Normally all airports have more than one runways for landing and take-off of an aircraft.
Average adequate length is 2 Km to 4 Km, but as geographical conditions some airports have very less runway length and some have very long. 
The biggest runway in the world is Qamdo Bamda Airport in China claims the title of longest publicly used paved runway in the world, at 5,500 meters (18,045 ft). 
The Juancho E Yrausquin Airport of Dutch Caribbean island of Saba has shortest runway length of 1,312ft (400 Meter) in the world available for commercial use.
At an altitude of nearly 9,500 feet, with the mercurial Himalayan weather, and a sheer drop, the airport can send shivers to the most courageous of the lot. 
Lukla Airport at high-altitude present dangers due to the effect that low air pressure has on the handling of an airplane. The second reason is very short length of runway about 527 Meters (1729 feet).
The Lukla small town is in the Khumbu Pasanglhamu rural municipality of the Solukhumbu District in the Province No. 1 of North-Eastern Nepal. 
It is a popular basecamp for visitors to the Himalayas near Mount Everest to arrive. 
Lukla is collection of small houses and hotels that are scattered within proximity to the region’s only airport- the Tenzing Hillary Airport. Due to Trekkers arrival and staying overnight while Mount Everest Treks there are many luxury guest houses have been constructed and this activity has converted this small village into a business hub of the region. From Kathmandu, it takes about 40 minutes to reach Lukla via plane
Reaching the summit of Mount Everest is dream for trekkers. 
More than 300 people have died attempting to reach the summit of Mount Everest, with countless more injured. Yet the dangers begin well before trekkers even reach base camp. 
The most common way hikers reach the area is to fly to the tiny Himalayan settlement of Lukla.
This airport is surrounded on all sides by sharp, mountainous terrain. The shortest runway is hanging on little more than a mountain shelf. At one end there's a wall and at the other a steep drop into the valley below.
The Lukla Airport was built in 1964. The construction was done under the supervision of Sir Edmund Hillary, and until recently in 2001, the airport runway wasn’t even properly paved. It was renamed in 2008 in honour of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, the first people to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
This airport is used mostly for passenger flights and the transport of cargo to Lukla and other villages in the north of the region, as there is no road access.
Once an aircraft starts its approach, it must touch down. Given these factors, only helicopters and small fixed-wing propeller aircrafts are permitted to land.
The aircraft landing or taking off from the Lukla Airport must use the single runway. High terrain blocks the already low prospect of go-around on short final aircraft approaches, and the runway ends in a steeply angled drop into the valley below. As such, landing and taking off from Lukla is difficult. The Civil Aviation has, as a result, set high standards for which only experienced pilots who have completed at least 100 short-takeoff-and-landing (STOL) missions with one year experience and certified instructor pilots have completed ten missions into Lukla are allowed to land at the airport. 
Despite extremely having the status as the most dangerous airport in the world, it is still pretty safe. There are 20 to 30 aircraft landings every day during the peak seasons. Half of the trekkers, who visit Nepal used to reach Everest basecamp through this most dangerous airport having the fact that statistically Lukla airport is comparatively more dangerous than a typical commercial airport.
The average airfare from Kathmandu to Lukla is 170 USD. You can book the seat through online and it is highly recommended to book two-way ticket. You can utilize cab to reach Tribhuvan international Airport Kathmandu from city. The cost of cab drive is almost 1000 NPR.
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List of the world's smallest airports is as follows:
1. Saba Airport, Caribbean.
2. Moshoeshoe I. International Airport, Lesotho.
3. Luang Prabang, Laos.
4. Morgantown Municipal Airport, United States.
5. St. Barts Airport (Gustaf III Airport), Caribbean.
6. Barra Airport, Scotland.
7. Tenzing-Hillary Airport, Nepal.
8. Svalbard Airport, Longyear, Svalbard.
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