you are correct. I meant to change it but haven't got round to it.
@aeskerritt2 жыл бұрын
@4:02s Donier showing it's grass cutting skills
@hippielewis47682 жыл бұрын
Last time I seen plane land in person was Khe-Sanh Vietnam 1968-was a beautiful sight-cause they were our life-line.
@paulodasilvaandre78082 жыл бұрын
The planes have to take off before the peral, otherwise the danger could be imminent 😳
@phiplihigalgo47292 жыл бұрын
Learn from them American Airlines. In a wing and a prayer.
@elwynaraujo4732 жыл бұрын
Aventura nas encostas
@tamaramarkovic30322 жыл бұрын
Come on ad twin otter startup and takeoff at lukla
@JuanPerez-cb7rj3 жыл бұрын
Yes, landing at Lukla is very safe.
@cliffwheeler73573 жыл бұрын
Is Landing at Lukla Safe? is the title of this video. Statistically, considering it's location and the number of flights, Lukla is relatively safe. The airport opened in 1964. The first accident occurred eleven years later in 1973. On that occasion, the aircraft was damaged on landing, but the six passengers on board were unhurt. In the forty eight years since then, there have been a further ten accidents or incidents. These resulted in twenty three fatalities, of which eighteen were in one accident, the Yeti airlines Flight 103. A DHC-6 Twin Otter 9N-AFE on October 8th 2008. Between 2003 and 2019, over one million five hundred thousand passengers flew in and out of Lukla without coming to any harm. I took the Lukla flight in 2004, and OK, it's a bit of a white knuckle ride, but boy, was it exciting. So, in my opinion, after reading the statistics, Lukla is not as dangerous as some of the hysterical, over the top postings you read on some websites would have you believe. In 2008 I took a Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu to Juphal, a dirt airstrip in the Dolpo region of north west Nepal. That made Lukla look like Heathrow in comparison.
@simonscycling36923 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the statistics - they're very thorough. You might be interested to know that Juphal has now been black-topped. I hope to fly back there in the spring next year (omicron allowing). I'll let you know if it's a more comfortable landing than before. It should be! The danger for that flight would be losing an engine, anywhere after leaving the terai and short of the runway.
@cliffwheeler73573 жыл бұрын
@@simonscycling3692 Thanks for the news about Juphal. Good luck for next year. Covid has really disrupted world travel.
@cootumrebel3 жыл бұрын
Flying in a little twin-engine putter-hopper is never safe. It's always a gamble. Two kinds of people fly in those planes: those who have crashed in them and those who have yet to do so.
@airdynasty85403 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the video
@severinosouza39994 жыл бұрын
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
@Peterdom3934 жыл бұрын
Un paisaje fascinante, y asombroso......Me gustaría mucho ir allá.
@wydocdoc4 жыл бұрын
Sjupukta airport dês futetd plane hevch a jituweet. Fabulousiy
@milangurung42724 жыл бұрын
amazing
@Gaysian694 жыл бұрын
Sup
@mysteryY2K3 жыл бұрын
waddup
@JDL37773 жыл бұрын
Sup
@loosecannon17882 жыл бұрын
Sup
@jamaansalamahallugmani71014 жыл бұрын
مطار لوكلا في النيبال خطير جدا اللقماني الحربي مكه المكرمه اللهم اجعلي بها قرارورزق حلال وبها احى وبها اموت 🌏🌐🇸🇦🕋👉
@robertwolff32215 жыл бұрын
I think the flight attendants are the bravest people.
@krishnadammu94725 жыл бұрын
i like this airport
@krishnadammu94725 жыл бұрын
busy airport
@jazzbeau5075 жыл бұрын
How do I get a job as air traffic controller here?
@zapfanzapfan5 жыл бұрын
Nice work getting different angles! 4:05 That was almost mowing the lawn, a foot lower and it would have been a crash.
@AngryHybridApe6 жыл бұрын
Its like landing on a carrier minus the cable.
@norman71796 жыл бұрын
How many flights per day on average?
@sprlowe6 жыл бұрын
Perhaps 16 to 20 a day peak season, with good weather lasting into the afternoon.
@norman71796 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your reply. That is a lot of flights for such a small airport.
@peterlovett58415 жыл бұрын
@@norman7179 You might notice on some of the other videos of Lukla that they "hot load". That is, one engine is kept running while the passengers disembark and embark on the other side. It is quick and allows for a speedy turn-around which is necessary when one aircraft might be doing 3 round trips and the weather may prevent afternoon flights. The departing passengers are lined up at the terminal ready for the aircraft's arrival and as soon as it has arrived they are taken out to the aircraft and wait there while the arriving passengers disembark along with their luggage. As soon as the departing passengers are on board the other engine is started and the aircraft taxies out for departure. An advantage of hot loading is that it is quick and they don't have to rely on the aircraft battery to get the shut-down engine started. Engine starts on turbo-prop aircraft are extremely hard on the battery, especially if the engine is fixed shaft as the starter motor has to turn over the whole engine and get it up to the speed where the fuel can be turned on.
@barneydemetrio52986 жыл бұрын
MUito bom! Espetáculo de aeroporto!
@julioaugustodasilvapereira34426 жыл бұрын
Estas imagens são fabulosas. Já conhecia o filme mas nunca é demais apreciar estas aterragens. O efeito de solo , as orográficas que se podem fazer sentir, isto é de facto a prova das mãos que são necessárias para pôr o zingarelho no chão. O Twin Otter conheço a sua operação, o Let 410 não.
@christianoaraujo73026 жыл бұрын
These are the best civilian pilots in the world.
@araildo37556 жыл бұрын
4:06 It was awesome!
@GeDoBa3 жыл бұрын
4:20 auf dem Zebrastreifen aufgesetzt. Die Piloten könnten wohl auch zielgenau auf einem Flugzeugträger landen!
@genana45416 жыл бұрын
It needs aircraft carrier landing system!!!!
@JustAnOrdinarySimmer4 жыл бұрын
No it doesn't. That's what the high gradient slope is for
@TR6Telos6 жыл бұрын
One slip with the throttles, and you are throttled.They need the road machine from Thunderbirds ( Gray and Housman ,aka 4 grey horses), to develop the mountain, by flattening them. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gojGp3h4a7OMpqM
@idrisseldjazairi31096 жыл бұрын
Very dangerous airport
@cliffwheeler73573 жыл бұрын
No it's not. Statistically, considering it's location Lukla is relatively safe. Between 2003 and 2019 over one and a half million passengers, of which I was one, flew in and out of Lukla without incident. There was the 2008 accident in which eighteen people sadly died as result of sudden blanket fog affecting the region. But fog has resulted in serious accidents in many of the worlds major airports.
@kibria_rakib6 жыл бұрын
Everyone should avoid Nepal for small Airports.
@sprlowe6 жыл бұрын
Now, that depends how you like to live your life - true adventure entails risk and Lukla is the gateway to higher adventures in the mountains.
@cliffwheeler73573 жыл бұрын
@ Rakib. If you are going to make glib comments like that, you should back it up with reliable statistics.
@cliffwheeler73573 жыл бұрын
@@sprlowe Well said sir. As well as Lukla, I have also flown to Juphal in north west Nepal. In 2008 it was a dirt airstrip, and probably still is.
@sprlowe3 жыл бұрын
@@cliffwheeler7357 you flew to Juphal a few years before me. It was dirt too when I landed in 2012, but it has been tarmac'd since then.
@mikebracchi6 жыл бұрын
7:36 Sadly this aircraft 9N-AKY is no longer - Crashed short of runway, suspected stall killing both pilots, one other crew member survived; there were no passengers on the flight.
@sprlowe6 жыл бұрын
Yes, about 3 days after this film - so this may be the last filmed landings and take off of 9N-AKY. Came out of cloud/ rain, too close to the runway, too low and off the centre-line. One pilot died at the time, the other at the local hospital in Lukla a few days later, being unable to be evacuated to a bigger hospital in Kathmandu due to the persistence of bad weather. The flight attendant survived.
@uh73856 жыл бұрын
@Mike Bracchi: 🛩😢 9N-AKY
@araildo37556 жыл бұрын
It's sad!
@zombokiler44626 жыл бұрын
@@sprlowe do these aircraft have very good brakes or are they reversing pitch of props to stop so quickly ?
@sprlowe6 жыл бұрын
@@zombokiler4462 they have relatively low landing speed, being designed for STOL, the runway is actually uphill on landing so that takes off a lot of speed, it's longer than it looks & the a/c can reverse feather the props. I doubt brakes are often needed. More often than not, they have to put on some power to get to the top of the slope and turn into the apron. I once saw one put wheels down a long way up the runway, and he was still carrying a lot of speed as he avoided the end wall & swung round into the apron. Overwhelmingly though, they land within a few metres of the very end of the runway giving themselves the full distance of the runway and plenty of time to slow.
@mbajobseekers56487 жыл бұрын
awesome
@OutsideMaterial7 жыл бұрын
Hi amazing Vid. You rock
@andrewgutsell96147 жыл бұрын
Cool
@sprlowe7 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@andrewgutsell96146 жыл бұрын
Who is the pilot?
@manojbista41509 жыл бұрын
good airport
@archiescriven617810 жыл бұрын
Pipe most be very cheap or grows on Himalayan trees
@leonkytee11 жыл бұрын
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