Harrowing runway: Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport's 1,300-foot-long runway terminates near a cliff edge. It's often classified as the world's shortest commercial runway. Courtesy Saba Tourist Board ...

Harrowing runway: Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport's 1,300-foot-long runway terminates near a cliff edge. It's often classified as the world's shortest commercial runway. Courtesy Saba Tourist Board ...

Tucked onto the Dutch Caribbean island of Saba, Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport is officially home to the second-shortest commercial runway in the world, stretching just 1,312 feet (400 meters) end ...

More surprisingly, Saba's airport is available for commercial use, meaning packed passenger flights are free to land on it. There are likely few runways to match Juancho E Yrausquin's beauty, either.

The runway at the Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport, in Saba, is the shortest commercial runway in the world and features a dramatic drop off a cliff at the end of it.

Saba airport is home to one of the smallest runways in the world Credit: JustPlanes YouTube channel JustPlanes recently shared a clip of one of the treacherous landings at Saba's Juancho E ...

As if the mountains near Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport on Saba Island in the Caribbean didn't make landing here tough enough, overshooting the 1,300-foot runway even by a little bit means nose ...

Saba Airport / Dutch Caribbean. Located on the island of Saba, the original King Kong movie island lies ... With just 1,700 feet of runway length, this airport has a downward gradient of 18.5%.

Tucked onto the Dutch Caribbean island of Saba, Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport is officially home to the second-shortest commercial runway in the world, stretching just 1,312 feet (400 meters) end ...

Saba airport is home to one of the smallest runways in the world Credit: JustPlanes YouTube channel JustPlanes recently shared a clip of one of the treacherous landings at Saba's Juancho E ...