Tegucigalpa, Honduras Toncontin airport landing

Adventure to the 2nd most dangerous airport in the world. Check out this vid I took from inside the plane left-wing side. We get so close to the houses and trees and did a pretty sharp turn. You have to be specially trained to land on this runway.....so rad!!!
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Some wiki facts:
The History Channel program Most Extreme Airports ranks it as the second most dangerous airport in the world.[2] The approach to the airport is considered to be one of the most difficult in the world to all aircraft, especially in inclement weather conditions.
AA landing in Tegucigalpa, post-May 2009 984 ft extension increasing the length of the runway from 6112 ft to its current 7096 ft., combined with further blasting of the hill on approach which somewhat decreases the risks and approaches angle.
The airport received much notoriety as being one of the most dangerous in the world due to its proximity to mountainous terrain, its short runway, and its historically difficult approach to runway 02.[2] For years efforts have been made to replace it with Soto Cano airport in Comayagua, currently an airbase. Toncontín has, however, been significantly improved by the work of the Airport Corporation of Tegucigalpa (ACT) and InterAirports, a company contracted by the Honduran government to administer the country's four major airports.
The airport has a single asphalt runway, which sits at an elevation of 1,005 m (3,297 ft) AMSL. Until May 2009 the runway was only 6,112 ft (1,863 m) in length. In 2007 the approach to runway 02 was made significantly easier by work which systematically bulldozed a large portion of the hillside, immediately before the threshold. Following on from this work, in May 2009, the southern end of the runway received a 984 ft (300 m) extension, lengthening it to 7,096 ft (2,163 m). As of 2011 the runway is listed as being 2,021 m × 45 m (6,631 ft × 148 ft)
Boeing 757s are the largest aircraft that normally land at Toncontín. Even with its recent runway extension, Toncontín's runway is still significantly shorter than most international airports.
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[@appleby1878]

your calm demeanor on this video is helping me get ready to actually do this flight.

[@ZbmwM5]

No doubt, an insane approach.... Impressive piloting skills :)

[@pollofrito3000]

Spent a few days in Tegucigalpa a quarter century ago. It was a cesspool then and I've heard it's worse now. Flying out of this airport in a rain storm was scary. Poor Honduras. It used to be such a lovely place. The Caribbean coast was awesome....Trujillo, Tela, La Ceiba, Utila and Roatan. The people were friendly and it didn't feel unsafe. They had an ancient train from San Pedro Sula to Tela and Puerto Cortes. It was like stepping back in time.

[@Shaliaj7]

pollofrito3000 you live in the past man, Honduras and Tegus are a lot much ahead of you!

[@cokie007]

This is the first one, because the other is not even commercial airport and is in the Nepal ¬¬!! i'm soo proud to live in Tegucigalpa :)

[@ZbmwM5]

Just did this approach last week and it was awesome! Great video!

[@pigeons707]

I would love to fly into Tegucigalpa just for this! It makes the landing into Guatemala City or Quito look like a Mr. Rogers episode!

[@sandsand6632]

Nice video

[@americanboy48]

Wonderful

[@AthosAmo]

We're not even the best at being the worst. But I love Honduras.

[@musikvideoproduktion_berlin]

wow! even chuck norris couldn't land this bird better! thx for sharing!

[@legoboyguy]

im also proud to have hte second on the world

[@mpleandre]

It's a cool experience, for the extreme people at least

[@karlowagstaffe7396]

That was a great landing

[@takeone6305]

u know this is one of the most dangerous airports in the world

[@ticolandia100]

Log Honduras pura vida

[@innersilencedotcom]

2:44 - you couldn't be further away from the truth. there's a good 35 meters between that wing and the ground right there.

[@southshoreadventures]

annnnnnnnd you need to be close to the ground to land..... LOL JK You guys make a cute couple. :)

[@karlowagstaffe7396]

But all the aircraft that land there are way smaller than 757s

[@adalto113114]

Boeing 737 ?

[@SKSwift]

i'm proud to say that we have the second most dangerous airport in the world! wo-ho! ¬¬... lol

[@karlowagstaffe7396]

They are all twin props landing in nepal. Not 757s or 737s

[@RichyJam2011]

Is this airport visual approach only? Shit...., imagine doing an instrumental into that at night in heavy rain :@

[@kexada007]

You can't. Only small little planes can go at night. Airliners either leave a day. Or sleep at night in this airport.

[@BoneyBoyParker]

I dont kow whats gour aviation knowledge so sorry if I'm talkin like for the idiot. This is RNP/RNAV approach so you goin with raw data from aircrafts flight management system, although you have to handfly the plane from roughly 9000 feet, decision altitude (to land or not) is on 6776 feet (and runaway @ 3400"). If you'll get into 2.1NM radius from rwy you have to continue into rwy heading otherwise you'll land at someones living room, so even if you'll go around you have to perform this tight turn (that you can really feel in stomach). Plane requires RNP ability and crew require special sim training (thats the oldest captains privilege to land there since they have much more hours than we, the juniors)

[@RichyJam2011]

James Linda Thanks for info man :)

[@Shaliaj7]

RichyJam2011 watch here in youtube the "night landing in Tegucigalpa" Costa Rican's Lacsa landing.

[@sarahfunes670]

Its usually too dangerous for large airliners like the 737 to travel at night especially with such a mountainous terrain and short runway so its only the little planes that land at night. I'd be so scared to go at night, too much of a risk of something possibly going wrong 😬😅

[@tommybass40]

You would think they'd build a better freakin' airport by now!

[@FabioMbo]

pff.. tem gente que ainda acha que Congonhas é mto perigoso..

[@filipmachu6019]

757

[@AthosAmo]

Actually, in 2010 Honduras had the most homicides in the world, so scratch that.

[@TheClon27]

Hey dude congrats.. u have a beautiful girlfriend.. nice video

[@dingdongditch1000]

Did you know that the world's most dangerous airport is in Nepal.

[@nickskog5116]

Some of your information is incorrect you do not have to be "specially trained" to land their

[@ticolandia100]

q tail

[@peterlang1524]

well the pronunciation of "tequcigalpa" all went to hell.