Plane landing at Lukla Airstip in the Khumbu, Nepal 

Wow really. Thanks for the info, man.

Its a garcharan area

my God the epic period of the patatoes field as runway... when the think about...

wow an aborted take off on that runway! that's got to have a pucker factor to it!

as much as I would love to be there, there is no way would I put a foot into one of these planes to fly there. I would rather hike there.

aborted take off? At the lukla? seriously? how far off the runway did the "abort" begin?

Yes we all rushed on board the pilot started the engines and rolled out to the top of the slope, engines revved to full we started to move, but not very far and then the pilots called it off and we all got off. The weather was bad, and they need visual to clear a ridge. 4 hrs later we had another go,nearly dark and snowing, and this time got airborne, but the pilots could not get enough visual to clear the ridge, we did a big circuit and relanded at Lukla. 2 days later the weather cleared enough for a 3rd attempt, this time all went well and 30 mins later we were in Kathmandu. I have been a few more times and the tarmac runway is much easier.

Aborted takeoff? V1's when you start moving pretty much

ItsJamMan hell

ItsJamMan, This picture is from eighties, why don’t you check the latest one !

Ang Sherpa I guess you didn’t understand the comment.

ItsJamMan, material used for surfacing roads or other outdoor areas, consisting of crushed rock mixed with tar???

Ang Sherpa Yea thats what tarmac is, why?

You would have enjoyed the aircraft carcasses at the end of the pitiful runway at the edge of Jomosom back then.

What was it like to be there in the 70s .Plz share your experience. Would love to hear it.

I remember seeing the remains of crashed aircraft in the valley. Seeing this made it very scary taking off, especially when we dropped a bit off the runway before climbing. I was there in 1983.

frank simon Not sure whether they're the best, but definitely the bravest, every flight take-off is a suicide mission.

+klsar1 There are more difficult spots that Lukla.. Lukla is rather big, Do228 and Twotters are mainly flying. When it comes to strips where only a Porter can operate things get interesting.

Hard up for a job to fly there.

When i trekked there in late 2000, they were working on the paving.

@@klsar1 Irrespective of how experienced the pilot is, they must go through the tough training before they are assigned to fly to Lukla. There is no second chance go back or if you change your mind once you start descending. You have tall mountains in the front, tall mountains to your left, right, everywhere except above and you can't go up vertically at that time and plane can't do that except USA F-35. lolz

Everest has become busy with 1000s of people. This airport is where they arrive. So it needed to be upgraded to handle the higher demand

must have been quite a time! Do share more about it!

I cannot say you exact date of the video but it's certainly before 1999. May be during Visit Nepal Year.

macoooy my dear sir I was born in 1981 🤗

Please tell us more as to how you came to be at Lukla during your youth, as you said. It would be very interesting to know more.

Actually how Lukla get it's supplies like construction materials, etc. Is there any road to Lukla ? How long it take to reach Lukla by road ( if there is a road). Cheers

Difficult but still easier than doing the same on flight simulator.

Did you mean harder? flight sim is just a piece of cake when you've studied tech manual. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fyhqj-2Mz80.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_eK7ZQ6wgOg.html

As a former RAF pilot with about 4,000 hours flying time. I take my hat off to you, Aashish.

I am a flight simmer, and I have about 300 flying hours in the 737-800, and I take my hat off to you for your amazing work.

No doubt but i'd love to land there.

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Same way like they pave roads and build houses -.-

He meant: How did they get the materials up to this town? There are no roads. (Perhaps they just used local rocks & pounded them to stone. Add tar. Done.)

@@electrictroy2010 I flew in in MarcH of 2001 by chopper and that's EXACTLY what they were doing. The tar was being carried in buckets and pored over the broken rocks. The recent photos make it look like a smooth asphalt surface so maybe that was done later in 2001 or since.

I thought it was a Nord 262, not sure tho

The Harbin Y12 was just brought in 2014 here in Nepal

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I flew out of there in March, 1979 after spending a month on the Everest trek. (to Kala Pattar). Grass runway, only a few buildings. Watching the mountains hovering over the clouds on the right after take-off , and then disappearing as we descended through them, was a very emotional experience, as I knew I had just had ended the adventure of my life Take-off at Lukla isn't that big a deal---if you hit V1. Lots of airports end in a drop-off. But landings? Yikes! (My worsts were Tegucigalpa and the old Hong Kong Kai-tak.)

I had my flight out from Katmandu.. I had allowed a week for delays. If I had known what was about to happen I would have walked on that very first day and made my flight in time. The fog lasted for ten days. Missed my connecting flight and began a bit of a nightmare journey home.

MrYeti1963 J took it in 1992,it was like that too !!

I couldnt agree more though I used to fly these but dolpa is really scary worst on a hot day.

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In March of 2001 they were laying rocks and pouring buckets of tar over it. Had started within the last year I think. I flew in on a chopper from Phaplu; they were landing in the parking area.

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Nah its definately not a twin otter..

dornier...prob a 228

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How did the tarmac get where? Surly they didn't take it up there on the back off doncky lol But still you can't get tones of tarmac in a DHC-6 can you?

Archie Scriven Someone told me that they helicoptered loads up from a batch plant that was set up at a lower elevation , I don't know if that is true or not but it sounds believable , they got it up there somehow.

Archie Scriven helicopter is the best way

I don't realized I already seen this vids a year ago!

Its paved now.

sim, deve ser de 1970 esta filmagem

E por todo esses anos a não conseguiram colocar uma câmera na pico ali, fim/começo da pista

Mingma Sherpa dj

I think you must mean the one above Namche, near Kumjung . My girlfriend, who had destroyed her knees by...NOT LISTENING TO ME...flew out of there in February 1979 on a Pilatus Porter. (She could go uphill, but not down, afflicted with "sahib's knee"). I went on to Everest. This may be hard to believe, but when I came back from Kala Pattar to Lobuche, I took ONE day to get all the way back to Namche, then another day to Lukla. 40-50 miles of high-altitude trekking in two days. I was really fit, but boy! was I starving!

Not paved until 2001.

The runway goes uphill, so less drag is better (otherwise the landing plane won’t make it to the top)

Its already paved. This is an old one.

did we fly Harbin (isnt it chinese) back then too?

About 2001...

I can only speak for what was going on in March 2001 when I flew in by chopper. They were breaking local rocks with a powered breaker (as I recall), spreading the rocks by hand and they were hand pouring buckets of hot tar over it, No construction equipmebht

Harbin Y-12 II

Aashik Pokhrel Chinese knock off of DH6.