Captain Brij Kotecha and First officer Nathan Green were in charge of an easyJet flight to Innsbruck in Austria. Rated a Category C (Classified), the landing is among the world’s most difficult – with only 140 easyJet pilots being cleared to fly them. These flights require specific crew and pilot training as they have unusual and often very difficult approaches.
Innsbruck is one of the hardest of the 16 airports on the list due to the surrounding terrain, prohibiting certain aircraft from even operating at the airport.
The Alps also create vicious winds and currents, which pilots have to deal with throughout the process and not to mention the low-level of cloud that can make it hard to see the runway until the last moment.
During ITV’s “easyJet: Inside The Cockpit” viewers were given a nail-biting first-hand experience of just how tense the landing can get.
The narrator revealed: “Captain Brij needs the clouds to clear enough so he can spot three vital landmarks in the final seconds.
The captain made a landing in almost blind conditions (Image: ITV)
EasyJet flies to the ski resort in Austria (Image: GETTY)
Flying blind at 150 miles per hour, Brij has to rely on his instruments, training and instinct to navigate the 8,000-foot-high mountains and hefty tailwinds
easyJet: Inside The Cockpit
“First, a group of flats on the east
