WOULD you risk landing in the island of Saba, where the airport runway is one of the shortest in the world? Footage has emerged of the tiny stretch of runway pilots have to work with when flying into ...

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 ...

Current time and date at J. Yrausquin Airport is 04:39:47 AM (CET) on Wednesday, Nov 26, 2025 Looking for information on J. Yrausquin Airport, Saba Island, Netherlands Antilles? Know about J.

Saba, the small Caribbean island 30 miles south of St. Maarten, will close its airport for runway renovations from Sept. 10 to Oct. 9. A new cement runway will be built as will a helicopter platform ...

Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport: With a strip of asphalt just 1,300 feet long, Saba's airport runway is not much longer than an aircraft carrier.

This is the tense moment a small passenger plane touches down on the tiny airstrip on the Caribbean island of Saba. And the pilot has less than 400m to stop before a shear drop into the ocean WOULD ...