I can't imagine anyone executing this landing better than this flight crew! The last 100 feet...fifty...they touched down right about at the very threshold. What a masterpiece this video should go straight to a flight school for airline pilots. GREAT job, Captain!!!
I'm from Tegucigalpa, and have the "experience" as passenger several times flying out and in of Toncontin International.What the video don't show is the people behind the pilots, for about 30 minutes everyone is quiet, you can hear a drop pin, specially in a rainy day.Tegucigalpa is a city over 400 years old, the city-airport are surrounded by mountans, the BRAVE pilots need to fly in circles inside the bowl, the runway is very short, that explain the almost vertical landing-taking off, great
for those never to TGU, the runway don't have more land, the city is made of hills and high mountain around,ONLY Pilots trained for harsh terrain can make it there.The other option is to fly to San Pedro Sula, 4 hours nort, the land there is flat and the airport better for easy landing and bigger planes, I quit using the TGU 10 years ago and now prefer the SPS. Honduras is a beautiful country with nice people, despite bad news, rarely a tourist will be in trouble there..Pilots I salute You!!
That's awesome and crazy approach good ole stick an rudder skills to land there. I'm sure it's a blast to see from the jumpseat. Awesome video your dad still flying ?
*Perfect* landing by this Captain at the 2nd most dangerous airport in the world. If your dealing with crosswinds, it makes landing even trickier. The approach to Tonconton is much like NASCAR for planes. Once you clear the mountain range, it’s nothing but left turns all the way down to the runway. This was an impressive landing!
Holy crap. Typically, you want 100 ft at the bars - but at HTG you need to be approaching 10-20 for an extremely short TDZ. Absolutely amazing work. I couldn't imagine doing this in a 150, let alone a B73. Truly impressive.
Great example here of 2 pilots working together in harmony and maintaining a sterile cockpit. The captain says what he is going to do and the co-pilot agrees and supports him in his decision and professional at all times. If all pilots worked together like this, it would diminish the possibility of pilot errors. If I'm on a plane I want these guys to fly the plane!
@aijaman Most definitely! And yes...I've had a couple opportunity's to ride in the cockpit. He did a couple non-passenger flights (i.e. flying the aircraft up to the paintshop in Amarillo) for me so I could, and I loved it!
i'll be landing on that airport on a couple of weeks, I just hope the american airlines pilots are as skillful as these guys. The view from the cockpit it's the best I've seen. CONGRATULATE YOUR FATHER FOR ME.
Awesome, too bad the camera angle was low upon landing, you guys could see what's ahead on the runway. On a personal note, at the 3:30 mark, the circle you see below it's my grandmother's final resting place. Great video.
Runway 02 MHTG, final approach: Coming in through a narrow valley with a tight left U turn in a step descent - each with a very high rate of descent, followed by a short flat -, in limited lateral space, to a very short high-elevation runway, usually in high temperature. To say nothing about when it rains. Not for the faint-hearted pax. Just for the really cool & well trained pilots. Kudos!
Wow, great job! Excellent flying on the pilots' part, and a great video. It must be so cool for your dad to be a commercial pilot. He showed excellent piloting there. Does he still fly to Toncontin? Will he still be able what with the Continental-United merger? Best wishes.
Been there. Done that. Superb landing in a very difficult airport. Honduras might consider building a more congenial airport somewhat else. Honestly, they have superb highways to transport folks back to the capital. (LOL) Just rent a Jeep.
Pilot in cold blood. The pilot has a lot of courage. Watching the video of fear. Eliminate the runway landing and takeoff. It is very dangerous for commercial aviation.
Come around the mountains....check out what's for breakfast through the windows of random houses....then drop the plane on to a runway and hit the brakes.
