Monday, March 21, 2011

Extreme Gibraltar Airport

Gibraltar Airport is a very unusual airport because runway actually intersects with a major highway. Winston Churchill Avenue (the main road heading towards the land border with Spain) intersects the airport runway, so consequently has to be closed every time a plane lands or departs. The History Channel programme Most Extreme Airports ranks it as the fifth most dangerous airport in the world, along with the most dangerous in Europe.


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