[WorkingClassFilth]

As a passenger, I have flown onto and off of mountains in jungle terrain; two airfields in the Himalayas; and a slew of third world pothole strips. The worst, for me, was landing in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The aircraft had to literally drop out of the air to make it and stopped within feet of the end of the strip. Take off was straight into the side of a mountain. Sometime after I had been there and marveled at my survival, another jet passenger plane hit the mountain. I understand large passenger jet aircraft no longer land at that airport.

[STYRO]

“...come on, show a little backbone!”

[Yardstick]

In and out of Tegucigalpa does look kind of exciting:

[ExtremeUnction]

Landing in downtown San Diego can be a thrill. As you decent you go by office buildings and I could swear you can see people at their computers working away.

[TomServo]

They lengthened the runway.

[Grizzled Bear]

Sounds a lot like landing in Afghanistan.

[Truth29]

"As a passenger, I have flown onto and off of mountains in jungle terrain; two airfields in the Himalayas; and a slew of third world pothole strips. The worst, for me, was landing in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The aircraft had to literally drop out of the air to make it and stopped within feet of the end of the strip. Take off was straight into the side of a mountain. Sometime after I had been there and marveled at my survival, another jet passenger plane hit the mountain. I understand large passenger jet aircraft no longer land at that airport."

There used to be a problem like that at St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. After a jet crashed into the mountain, the problem was solved in the old American spirit by removing much of the mountain.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Tegucigula landing of a 757.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_z5HtME9n8

[STYRO]

Tegucigalpa was a cakewalk on FS. Did you mean Toncontin International, or some other strip?