As long as decades-old Twin Otter landed at Lukla airport, the passengers broke out in applause. They do, almost every one is often the gateway to Everest terrible airport safely.
At an altitude of 2,843 meters (9,325 feet), where a small airstrip has earned a reputation in the world's most extreme and dangerous airports. Single runway is very narrow, short-term and tilt. From a few meters (or feet), the aircraft crashed into a mountain, missed the runway.
Said: "" After crossing the river there is no turning back, you have the land, Plummer Depp Bender, Tara Air Force pilots have flown hundreds of these flight to Lukla.
Carved out of the hillside, the airport was built in 1965, Sir Edmund Hillary - 12 years later, he became the first man to conquer the world's highest peak - to help the local yak herders called Sherpa regional development in poor areas.
Now what was once a dirt strip, one of the busiest airports in Nepal, Tenzing - Hillary Airport - named Hillary's climbing partner Tenzing Norgay. Thousands of climbers who visit the Everest region and trek flew airports, if they want to avoid an all day bus trip from Kathmandu and five days on foot to reach here.
The airport has handled 79 flights a day - far beyond the acceptable capacity for such a facility, Rinji said the airport's air traffic controllers, who like most Sherpas in the Everest region, only one name.
"It is very challenging, because the airport and its location surrounded by mountains is challenging terrain and traffic is challenging, said:" Rinji. "There is little space aircraft control, because high mountains and narrow valleys."
Pudeer pilot, said he and his colleagues need to concentrate hard landing, which is less than 500 meters (yards) long and slope of about 12 degrees, almost 20 meters (65 feet) wide single runway.
"Because there is no way to go around again, we must, like air speed, tail wind, fog calculate a lot of things," he said. "If you do not do the correct calculation or proper exercise, then it" - which means an accident - "happen."
Airport can only handle some special short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft like the Twin Otter or Dronier, about 18 passengers. It has space for only four of these aircraft parked at once.
The runway is one takeoff and landing approach. Aircraft landing and taking off from the southwest toward the northeast, because one side is a mountain on the runway. When the wind blows in an unfavorable direction, all takeoffs and landings must be stopped.
Crashes are not uncommon.
2008, 18 people were killed when Twin Otter aircraft belonging to Yeti Airlines domestic side of the runway and smashed into the fire, trying to land in heavy fog. Investigators say the pilot should not attempt to land in these conditions.
In August 2010, 14 people were killed when a fire belonging to the domestic aviation Dronier, after the crash, it was forced to turn back due to bad weather conditions in Lukla. In May 2004, another Yeti Airlines Twin Otter crashed close to Lukla, killing all three passengers in an accident blamed heavy cloud building and pilot misjudgment.
An aircraft can not stop short of the runway and smashed into a wall. Another skidded off the runway. The third lost its front landing gear, as it tries to land in and out of the runway, forcing the closure of the airport for two days. No one was killed in those crashes.
In addition to trekking, flight bringing food, building materials, beer and other materials needed by the local population in the impoverished region.
It has changed the way of life here.
Lukla Once a small village, there are 3,000 people, many of whom were attracted to tourism. Sherpa waiting outside the airport hopes to be hired as porters, living in the mountains for anywhere from a few days to a month trek.
But booming population attracted to the airport is also a serious lack of drinking water and sewage problems. Fog screen, landed at the airport in October popular trekking season, the flight was canceled for several days. Has left as many as 2,500 passengers stranded here in the small food and no accommodations.
Even in the best days, the airport opened for only a few hours.
Funru a man named, said his father had owned land at the airport to sit and help Hillary dug airstrip.
"When I first started working in the airport, which was once such a thing, like a river. Every night, we have to collect rocks and filling potholes, so flights can land the next morning," Funru say .
 



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