Zero visibility, runway invisible until the plane is actually on the ground. Watch here. I’m guessing before the advent of computers many of these landings ended in disaster, or were simply avoided?
I like the comment on this related vid - “What airport?”
I was half expecting to suddenly see a goat on a mountaintop.
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God, I hope I never have to land in that kind of soup. I don’t care. Take me to Topeka and overnight me. Whatever. Gah.
They were simply avoided – the airport would have been considered too “fogged in” to be open.
When I went to Nova Scotia in 06 the landing was very similar. Looking out the window of the plane, all you could see was fog, then all of a sudden the tops of the trees were visible, and then we were on the runway.
No other planes landed there for another 5 or 6 hours.