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Well, most of us probably know there is a Corsair with history located in the Tegucigalpa area, but after watching this video, I'm not so certain I want to go see it by being a passenger on this approach into Toncontin!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_z5HtME9n8

(At 3 DME descend into volcanic crater and arc left to 330 radial.
Descend to NLT 150 AGL.
(Radio TWRs 120)
Intercept FAC of 150.
Descend and maintain 80 AGL until Final Approach Fix at 2 DME.
FAF is 3 dog houses (2 white, 1 green).
At FAF descend and maintain 15 AGL to RNWY 16
WARNING: Strong crosswinds)

looks like the pilot did a fine job, and it looks like a fun one to fly!

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Dayum!

That's a wild approach!

They earn their money on that one!

Z

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!!!!!

Wow, looked like he almost clipped the trees with the landing gear.

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Fellas,
I have had the fortune of experiencing this approach!!. In '97 i was flying freight in our DC-3 and we delivered supplies to Honduras post Hurricane Mitch. My first trip was into San Pedro Sula 2 days after the flood waters subsided-exciting in itself, and the next trip was into Tegucigalpa and i can say that even after burning off 300 gallons of avgas on the way in, we still weighed in at around 23000 lbs with cargo and that combined with the airport elevation made our groundspeed awfully high. combine THAT with having to keep 20" manifold px on to keep the engines alive and we had a very slippery approach, they actually stop cars on the road cause your gear would go through the side of a van!! We had the power back gear and full flaps out on midfield downwind, vigourous slip base through final and still were over the fence at 105 mph and rolled all the way to the end as the '3's brakes are weak at best.
fun stuff!!
Simon

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Did they walk away? Is the aircraft immediately usable? I see no problem.

Mudge the logical

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Palmora was down once due to weather and we had to divert here. I was in a Chinook so it wasn't bad but just watching birds land is scary. I think they were trying to close this one down and switch it to Palmora--but we've ramped up our presence there so no chance of that happening.

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Many aircraft have had mishaps and accidents at this airport.Some airliners have taken the fence down with their landing gears and in one incident,a C-47 from the Honduras Air Force took the roof off a mini bus during approach.I believe there were casualties.
In the pictures below you can see the C-47 doing the emergency landing with just one wheel extended,while the other photo shows the damage to the vehicle.

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