Flying into Saba isn’t for the faint hearted. The vertiginous slopes and sea cliffs of this five-square-mile island in the Caribbean don’t leave much space to land a plane. But Juancho E. Yrausquin ...

The world's shortest commercial runway is so tricky, only a small selection of pilots are allowed to land planes on it. Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport, in Saba, a Dutch Caribbean island, is built on its ...

PILOTS risk plunging into the ocean when landing at the world’s smallest commercial airport with alarmingly short runway sitting at the cliff edge. The only airport on the island of Saba features the ...

Local pride: The runway appears on one of Saba's postage stamps, and the souvenir shop in the village of Windwardside sells T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan, "I survived the Saba landing!".

It often appears in the "world's scariest landings" list PILOTS risk plunging into the ocean when landing at the world’s smallest commercial airport with alarmingly short runway sitting at the cliff ...