I thought I was brave by flying into Midway on a regular basis

Chicago's Midway Airport, known as "the world's busiest square mile," has runways that are shorter than those of most major airports. When landing there, I often end up fighting the forward momentum in my seat due to the hard braking required to prevent ending up in the surrounding Chicago neighborhoods, like this



Running across this today makes me feel like a flying wimp, though. The World's Scariest Runways slideshow features video clips of frightening takeoffs and landings, sometimes mere feet over people's heads! This makes me appreciate the training and skill of the pilots and crew who get us safely up and down every single day around the world, even in the most harrowing of circumstances.

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