Welcome…

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 TENZING-HILLARY
AIRPORT
Lukla, Nepal

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 OBJECTIVE
To be acquainted with one of the world’s most
DANGEROUS runways…

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OVERVIEW
 Airport Familiarization
 General Information
 Airlines and Destinations
 Limitations
 Relevant Images & Video Clip
 Sum Up
 References
 Q&A
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 AIRPORT FAMILIARIZATION
 Location : Lukla, Nepal
 IATA : LUA
 ICAO : VNLK
 Airport type : Public
 Elevation AMSL : 9,383 ft / 2,860 m
 Coordinates : 27°41′16″N
086°43′53″E
 Direction : 06/24
 Length : 1750ft [525 m]
 Width : 65 ft [20m]
 Surface
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 GENERAL INFORMATION
 This runway is also known as LUKLA
AIRPORT

 Located in the town of Lukla, in Khumbu,

Solukhumbu district, Sagarmatha zone,
eastern Nepal

 Renamed in honor of Sir Edmund Hillary

and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay
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 GENERAL INFORMATION
 The airport is popular because Lukla is the
place where most people start the climb to
Mount Everest Base Camp

 The airport's paved asphalt runway is only

accessible to helicopters and small, fixed-
wing, short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft,
such as the De Havilland Canada DHC-6
Twin Otter, Dornier Do 228, Pilatus PC-6
Turbo Porter aircraft etc
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 GENERAL INFORMATION
 There are daily flights between Lukla and
Kathmandu during daylight hours, in good
weather

 The airport is contained within a chain

link fence and patrolled by the Nepal
armed police or civil police around the
clock

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 AIRLINES AND
DESTINATIONS
AIRLINES DESTINATIONS
Agni Air Kathmandu
Gorkha Airlines Kathmandu
Nepal Airlines Kathmandu, Kangel Danda,
Lamidanda, Phaplu, Rumjatar
Sita Air Kathmandu
Tara Air Kathmandu

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 LIMITATIONS
 Aircraft can only use runway 06 for landing and
runway 24 for taking off due to the surroundings

 Only one chance to land [Due to the terrain,

there is no prospect of a successful go-around on
short final. There is high terrain immediately
after the northern end of the runway and a
steeply angled drop, of about 2000 feet (610 m)
at the southern end of the runway, into the valley
below]
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 LIMITATIONS
 No landing aids are available and the only air
traffic service is an Aerodrome Flight
Information Service

 Because of high wind, cloud, rain & variable

visibility flights can be delayed or the airport
might be closed completely

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Let’s have a view of the airport…

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 TENZING-HILLARY AIRPORT
[Cockpit View From Short Finals]
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 TENZING-HILLARY AIRPORT
[Satellite View]

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 TENZING-HILLARY AIRPORT
[Satellite View]

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 TENZING-HILLARY AIRPORT
[Satellite View]

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 TENZING-HILLARY AIRPORT
[Satellite View]

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 SUM UP
A program entitled Most Extreme
Airports broadcasted on The History
Channel in 2010, rated the airport as the
most dangerous airport in the World

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 REFERENCE
www.wikipedia.org

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 ANY
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OR

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 THANK YOU

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