If you're flying to New Zealand anytime soon, don't watch this video

[jmowreader]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmkX8ZCoiAo&feature=related

This is a collection of "horrifying landings" shot at an airport in New Zealand. Whole lotta guys looking down the runway through the side windows...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. It got a little dicey in Hamburg a few weeks ago, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd2AoYtTcFg&feature=related

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. The international flights all land at Auckland, not Wellington

If I ever have reason to go to Wellington, I'll land at Auckland and go by ferry and bus. :-)

[MonkeyFunk]

6. Yes

and flying into Auckland is absolutely gorgeous.

[ForrestGump]

3. Didn't watch the video, but

it has to be all shot at Wellington's airport. The winds there are vicious and swirly and it's a notoriously tough place to land with any finesse or illusion of security. I've taken off and landed there, the worst being when I landed there in a puddlejumping Buddy-Holly plane. :scared:

[Pierre.Suave]

4. Even in good weather...

this is a scary landing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NjVAM_FeM4


edit: or this one, trust me the video IS working...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kldqhZ3ENhc

[ForrestGump]

5. This one -- Saba. Don't do it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_9DaKXokYw

Infinitely worse: Papua New Guinea. This is one of the hairy-but-not-as-hairy-as-it-gets ones:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oB73Z767S8

Many of the airstrips in PNG are sited on ridges, some with steeper slopes than the one in the clip and some terminating in cliffs. PNG pilots have to be among the world's very best and, because of a gold rush, the island of New Guinea was a vital arena for the early development of civil aviation.