10 Most Dangerous Landing Strips in the World

Air travel has become so popular that you will hardly find a place on earth, where you cannot reach by air. This obsession with air travel has led to mushroom growth of airports around the world. When you will look at the pictures below, you will ask yourself this question. “What on earth, they were thinking, when they put that landing strip there?” All of you will agree that the photos below are an airline pilot’s worst nightmare. These are indeed world’s most difficult landing approaches. It needs a lion’s heart or Instrument Landing to land an aircraft there.

Here I have compiled 10 most difficult and dangerous landing approaches of the world.

Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong

With numerous skyscrapers and mountains located to the north and its only runway jutting out into Victoria Harbour, landings at the airport were infamously difficult.

Funchal Airport, Madeira

The airport is infamous for its short runway which, surrounded by high mountains and the ocean, which make it a tricky landing for even the most experienced of pilots

Gustaf III Airport, St. Barts

The arrival descent is extremely steep over the hilltop traffic circle and departing planes fly right over the heads of sunbathers (although small signs advise sunbathers not to lie directly at the end of the runway

Courchevel Airport, France

Courchevel’s airport has a certain degree of infamy in the aviation industry as home to one of the shortest runways in the world. The airport has a dangerous approach through deep valleys which can only be performed by specially certified pilots

Princess Juliana Airport, Saint Maarten

The airport is famous for its short runway at only 2,400 meters it is barely long enough for heavy jets to land. Therefore, incoming airplanes approaching the island have to fly extremely low, passing only 10-20 meters over relaxing tourists on Maho Beach.

Gilgit Airport, Pakistan

Due to the short runway at Gilgit airport that is located at the edge of a slope, even an aircraft as small as a Boeing 737 aircraft cannot land and take-off at the Gilgit Airport.

Khathmandu International Airport

It is considered one of the dangerous and deadliest airports in the world because of its location and the difficulties during landing. It is a step by step decent landing and the pilot has to continuously monitor the altitude as well as should be physically able to see the mountains. for more details check Assad’s blog post.

Narsarsuaq Airport, Greenland

Narsarsuaq Airport is located in Narsarsuaq, in southern Greenland. The lake at the end of the runway and steep cliffs makes it difficult to land even for skilled pilots.

Saba Island Airport, Netherlands Antilles

The locals claim that this is the shortest commercial airport runway in the world. There are not any overrun areas on either end of the paved runway where sheer cliffs immediately drop off over 200 feet into the sea.

Lugano Airport, Switzerland

Lugano-Agno’s instrument approach procedure is quite challenging because of its steep angle of descent of 6.65°which is double of the standard approach. This is due to its geographic location in the mouth of a valley.

source : http://listphobia.com/2009/06/17/10-most-dangerous-and-difficult-landing-strips-in-the-world/

Most Largest Mosque In The World

1. Masjid al-Haram, Mecca, Saudi Arabia:
The ever great mosque and Holy place Masjid al-Haram is the largest mosque in entire world. It is situated in the Holy city of Mecca and encircled the Kaaba Shareef. All the Muslims from every corner of the world turn over here and do their daily worships. It is all better recognized as the Grand Mosque. It has capacity to accommodate up to four million Muslim having area of 4,008,020 square meters (990.40 acres), it happens usually during the Hajj period which is also one of the largest gathering ever been in whole world.

2. Al-Masjid al_Nabawi:
It is also well recognized as the Prophet’s Mosque which is located in Medina, Saudi Arabia. It is well respected by both caste Shia and Sunni Muslims as It was the last place where our beloved Prophet Mohammad (S.A.W) took rest, and it is second holiest place after the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca and also termed as the second largest mosque in the world.

World's Most Dangerous Airports

Princess Juliana International Airport serves Saint Maarten, the Dutch part of the island of Saint Martin. It is the second busiest airport in the Eastern Caribbean. The airport is famous for its short landing strip — only 2,180 metres/7,152 ft, which is barely enough for heavy jets. Because of this, the planes approach the island flying extremely low, right over Maho Beach. Countless photos of large jets flying at 10--20 m/30-60 ft over relaxing tourists at the beach have been dismissed as fakes many times, but are nevertheless real. For this reason as well it has become a favourite for planespotters. Despite the difficulties in approach, there has been no records of major aviation incidents at the airport.

The largest hospital in the world

               Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital

 Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital is the largest hospital in the world, occupying 173 acres (0.70 km²), with 3 200 beds and 6 760 staff members. The hospital is in the Soweto area of Johannesburg, South Africa. (Soweto was a separate municipality from 1983 to 2002, when it was amalgamated to the City of Johannesburg.) 

It is one of the 40 Gauteng provincial hospitals, and is financed and run by the Gauteng Provincial Health Authorities. It is a teaching hospital for the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, along with the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Helen Joseph Hospital and the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital.

The world's smallest island

Bishop Rock

To answer this question we must first answer 'What is an island?'

A hunk of rock classifies an an island if one of two conditions are true:

1. It is inhabited.
2. It has to equal the size of the summer's pasturage of at least one sheep which is equal to two acres according to an 1861 bureaucratic classification.

Now that that is out of the way, the world's smallest island is Bishop Rock  located of the south west point of the United Kingdom.

Bishop Rock houses a manned lighthouse on a 46 x 16 meter expanse of rocks that combined makes up the world's smallest island.

Kediaman Termahal

Antilla : US1 billion

The world’s most expensive home in 2010 is unquestionable. 

1. It is the first $1 billion home the world has seen. A custom-build 27 story     towering mansion, Antilla in Mumbai is the home of the world’s fifth richest man, namely Mukesh Ambani, head of Indian petro-chemical giant Reliance Industries, which is India’s most valuable firm by market capitalization.

With double height ceilings, ballrooms, crystal chandelier ceilings, retractable stages, and 600 servants, there is no other home on earth that compares to the 570 feet tall Antilla.

Villa Leopolda, Cote d'Azur France : US 525 million

2. Villa Leopolda is an 80,000 square foot Chateuau built in 1902 by King Leopold II of Belgium. The villa has been rumoured to be the home of Bill Gates and many more global figures, but has actually been home to French banker Edmond Safira, whose wife Lily still lives there. 

The 19 bedroom villa, which boasts sports courts, a bowling alley, multiple kitchens, dining rooms and a movie theatre, received even more press lately when a Russian mogul lost his deposit on the property when he reneged on completing the sale.

One Hyde Park, The Penthouse - London : US200 million

3. This massively stylish modern penthouse may not be so expensive did it not sit atop the famous number 1 Hyde Park address. As it is in such a premium location it has been built as a home for the rich and famous complete with SAS guard, bullet proof windows, iris scanners, panic rooms and a secret tunnel to the nearby Mandarin Hotel. 

The building has communal spas, squash courts and wine tasting rooms, and the penthouse is served by 24 hour room service.

Fairfield Pond - The Hampton : US170 Million

4. This 63 acre home is considered the largest residential compound in America. The 29 bedroom beachfront home of publicity shy billionaire Ira Rennert has 5 sports courts, a bowling alley and a $150,000 hot tub.

Kediaman Terpanjang

Karl-Marx-Hof

Umangai…The Karl-Marx-Hof di Vienna adalah Gemeindebauten di dunia, dalam bahasa German bermaksud bangunan majlis daerah, sebuah kediaman yang disediakan oleh majlis daerah. Ini macam rumah mesra rakyatlah dibina pada kos yang rendah bagi membantu rakyat yang tidak berumah. Bagus juga idea ni..

The Karl-Marx-Hof telah dibina mulai tahun 1927  sehingga tahun 1930 dan panjangnya lebih kurang 1.1 kilometer. Rumah di sini mampu memuatkan sehingga 5,000 orang. Secara sekilas pandang, bagus penempatan komuniti di sini. Satu tempat sahaja mampu menampung ramai penduduk. 

Secara rasmi Karl-Marx-Hof dikenali sebagai bangunan kediaman terpanjang di dunia atau bangunan apartmen terpanjang di dunia.

Rumah panjang Iban di Sarawak

Di negara kita ado jugak rumah lebih kurang macam ini, rumah panjang. Tapi tak adolah yang sampai satu kilometer panjangnya. Mungkin ado yang panjang , malangnya belum berkesempatan melawat ke sana. Idea yang bagus ni..boleh diaplikasikan. Maklum, ramai rakyat yang masih belum berkemampuan membeli rumah yang sedia ada di pasaran. Mahal.

Bangunan Paling Tinggi

 

Burj Dubai merupakan bangunan paling tinggi di dunia. Pembinaannya mengambil masa selama 5 tahun Bangunan ini terletak di Dubai, in  United Arab Emirates (UAE).  Bangunan ini berdiri setinggi 2,716 kaki dan menelan belanja sebanyak 1.5 billion dollars .  Bangunan pencakar langit ini mengandungi 9 fancy hotels dan 1,044 apartments untukdidiami. Terdapat 57 elevator,  sebahagiannya mempunyai kelajuan tinggi pada kadar 33 kaki persaat. Pada hari yang terang, pengunjung dari tingkat pemerhatian 124 berkemungkinan dapat melihat pantai negara Iran. Umang-ai punyolah tinggi. Agak-agak si 'spiderman' yang memanjat KLCC dulu berani tak mencubo.