Officials have been struggling for years to replace several airports including aging Toncontin International Airport, whose short runway, primitive navigation equipment and neighboring hills make it one of the world’s more dangerous landing strips. And now it has happened again².
This time three people was killed, among them the captain of the aircraft. Maybe this is the time for the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) to clean up in their own backyard before telling upstanding airlines like British Airways how they are flying their aircrafts? This TAPA Airbus was in fact a regularly visitor to Miami as well.
The A320 from TAPA Airlines skidded off the runway of the Tegucigalpa airport in Honduras¹. Reports say there were bad weather in the area. But as someone mentioned in a thread earlier talking around this tragic accident; “a landing accident in bad weather is not caused by bad weather alone. It is caused by choosing to land in bad weather. Caused by people, a decision made by someone somewhere”.
Here you can see an amazing video featuring the airport:
Here`s how it could look like from the passenger window:
1. CNN reports that 3 dead after airliners overshoots Honduras runway.
2. TAM-accident (2007) from Aviationweek, read all about it here.
3. NY Times has a report on the dispute between FAA and BA here.
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