Toncontin Airport doesn’t need an introduction. You say the word “Toncontin” immediately the image of an aircraft narrowly crashing with bushes and buildings come up to your mind. This Honduran airport was opened in 1920 in the capital city of Tegucigalpa. It is one of the oldest airports in Central America and one of the oldest constant operations in the world. The airport was officially inaugurated in 1933 with the arrival of the DC3 By the 1980’s airlines preferred the San Pedro Sula airport because it offered a less ‘dangerous’ and more comfortable (space) ambient for aircraft and passenger operations. Many accidents have happened in this airport but it is mainly because of its difficult approach, consisting of elevated terrain in all quadrants of the airfield. We have made this airport to be Circa 2006, so that the renovations of the runway that occurred after 2007 until this date are not displayed, since it takes a way the most treasured knowledge of this airport and its unique ‘approach’, compared mostly with that of Kaitak and others, but this one is more special due to the fact that the airport sits at more than 3000 feet above sea level, and has a runway of roughly 6000 feet of length.
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