Pasto, Colombia SKPS should be in there, or at least #16.

Speaking of Saba's tiny airport -- I was flying near Saba the other day and I chickened out and went on to TNCM instead.

I would classify “terrifying approaches” something like an emergency landing . Those are pretty exciting ones 🙂

I wouldn't say that any airport anywhere that gets airline service counts as a "terrifying" approach.  Airline flying is extremely structured, and the safest segment of aviation in existence.  If an airline operates somewhere, they've found a structured and reliably safe way to do it.

I think for "terrifying" you're gonna have to look at the fringe, extreme bush operators like the steep, one way, no-go-around strips in New Guinea.  Even there, the operators have found a halfway structured way to do it safely, though it's far riskier than anything being done in an airliner.

2 hours ago, Stearmandriver said:

I wouldn't say that any airport anywhere that gets airline service counts as a "terrifying" approach. 

I haven't flown there personally (it's in the bucket list), but friends who have flown to Lukla definitely described it as "terrifying" among other choice words. 

Airlines operate in some pretty sketchy places in the more remote areas of the world, often with aircraft that don't feel nearly as safe as your usual tubeliner.

Of course, the video in question does oversell most of the airports featured, as YouTubers tend to do. 

Edited August 10, 20232 yr by Abriael