In 2008, a Taca Airlines Airbus 320 crashed at Honduras’s Toncontin airport when it ran out of room on a runway. Five people were killed, including the pilot.

Why this airport is one of the most dangerous in the world SO MANY planes have crashed at this deadly airport, passengers now cross their fingers and pray to survive as they approach it.

A crane lifts the wreckage of a Gulfstream G200 aircraft that skidded off the runway during landing at Toncontin International Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, May 22, 2018.

Currently operating as Palmerola Air Base, the new commercial airport will replace Toncontin International Airport (TGU) for all international service into the Tegucigalpa area.

All international traffic was shifted from Toncontín Airport to Palmerola International Airport. Toncontín Airport will be further used for domestic flights and general aviation only.

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President Manuel Zelaya closed the Toncontin international airport for 48 hours to all aircraft. Commercial flights were being diverted to the international airport in San Pedro Sula, 112 miles ...

Honduras' Palmerola Airport has opened, offering a safer alternative to the dangerous Toncontín airport; Munich Airport International was involved in the project.

Joe Rotunda, 71, chief operating officer of Austin-based EZCorp, suffered broken ribs and a punctured lung when the Gulfstream crashed Tuesday at Tegucigalpa’s Toncontin International Airport ...

A company jet they were traveling in crashed off the runway Tuesday, almost splitting in two, when it landed at Toncontin International Airport near the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.

The Central American Airlines plane was flying to the Toncontin international airport in Tegucigalpa when it crashed Monday morning in the town of Las Mesitas, about three miles south of the airport.

The American History Channel has previously ranked Toncontin International Airport as second most “dangerous” on the planet, after Lukla Airport, Nepal.