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Last minutes of our flight to Saba from Sint Maarten Princess Juliana Airport in the WINAIR Twin Otter.
Juancho E. Irausquin Airport (IATA: SAB, ICAO: TNCS) is an airport on the Dutch Caribbean island of Saba. Its runway is widely acknowledged as the shortest commercial runway in the world, with a length of 400 m (1,312 ft). Landing here is scary as hell.
During the flight the Twin Otter makes a sharp left turn right before the island Saba with an amazing view on the volcanic rock wall. It then drops in altitude to almost crash land on the shortest commercial runway.
Juancho Irausquin, has the shortest commercial runway in the world, only 400 metres (1,312 ft) long, flanked on one side by high hills, with cliffs that drop into the sea at both ends. The airport is closed to jet traffic, but regional airline propeller aircraft are able to land there under waivers from The Netherlands Antilles' Civil Aviation Authority. The most common aircraft to land there are the STOL (short takeoff and landing)-capable de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter and Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander.