Traveling by plane is a good time-saving alternative, and statistically the safest method of travel. However, in certain places, a simple trip can become a nightmare if a place has dangerous airport landings.

We’ve rounded up some of the worst around the globe. We took into consideration the following factors: having short runways, being located at a high altitude, being in a place with unusual weather conditions, registering a high density of air traffic or being in the middle of mountains or buildings.

Each one of these dangerous airport landings require highly experienced pilots, who must perform arduous landing and take-off maneuvers. Landings are where you are likely to encounter the most risks for an accident due to the aircraft’s proximity to the ground. Gitnux reported, “Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) data shows that 80% of commercial airplane accidents occur during takeoff or landing.”

But do not let that scare you from flying as CNN reported, “the worldwide death risk per boarding was one in 13.4 million – that means that if you picked a flight completely at random and just took it, your chance of dying in a plane crash or a terrorist act was about one in 13 million.”

Although there is no single list containing all dangerous airports landings, the names of several of them are mentioned in blogs and specialized pages. Here are 10 of them.

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