by Ed Douglas, Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2296381/Everest-danger-Why-planes-taking-tourists-Nepal-climb-mountain-crashing.html
-The runway is 60 feet wide
-If you "undershoot and you plough into the steep hillside beneath."
-If you "overshoot and you crash into the hillside at its end."
-"Because the bottom of the runway is lower than the top, pilots suffer spatial disorientation, with their aircraft lower than they think..."
-Flights are almost always overloaded with baggage due to bribes and short loading time windows
"Landing at Lukla airport in the outskirts of the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu is tricky. Just 1,500ft long and only 60ft wide, the runway ends in a blank mountain wall and has an uphill gradient of 12 per cent."
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