Challenging Airports: Landing at McMurdo, Antarctica

MIAMI – While there are several airports that are considered challenging, almost all of them at least offer a paved tarmac strip to touch down but McMurdo station, located in Antarctica, offers pilots nothing more than a few inches of thin ice to put their aircraft down. The Location The entire runway complex is constructed […]

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