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Daily Mirror
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Milo Boyd

Heart-stopping moment pilot attempts to land at 'world's hardest runway'

An amazing video shows a pilot winding his way through a mountainous valley over the roofs of homes to land at what is widely considered to be the most challenging runway in the world.

Only a few dozen pilots are licensed to land their planes at the Paro Airport in Bhutan, a tiny strip which runs beneath the towering Himalayan mountains.

It is widely considered to be the hardest commercial runway in the world to land on, due to the extreme geography that surrounds it and its size.

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