An Airport Over The Valley!!

Nowadays the engineering science is so advanced that if engineers want, They can build an airport on top of a valley with 70 meters of depth.

Madeira international airport is one of the most surprising airports in the world

Madeira Airport, informally known as Funchal Airport, and formerly known as Santa Catarina Airport, is an international airport in Santa Cruz, Madeira, Portugal. The airport controls national and international air traffic for the island of Madeira.

It was first opened on 18 July 1964 with two 1,600 m (5,249 ft) runways.

The airport was once infamous for its short runway which, surrounded by high mountains and the ocean, made it a tricky landing for even the most experienced of pilots. The original runway extended by 200 m 8 years after the TAP Portugal Flight 425 incident of 1977 which 131 travelers died in a Boing727 aircraft.

The runway rebuilt in 2000 again, almost doubling the size of the runway. It was built out over the ocean; instead of using landfill, the extension was built on a series of 180 columns, each about 70 m tall.(The height of a 17 storey building.)

For the enlargement of the new runway the Funchal Airport won the 2004 Outstanding Structure Award,The Outstanding Structure Award is considered to be the "Oscar" for engineering structures worldwide. The History Channel program Most Extreme Airports ranked it as the 9th most dangerous airport in the world, and the second most dangerous in Europe after Gibraltar International Airport.

The extension of Madeira Airport was conducted by the Brazilian construction company Andrade Gutierrez, and is recognised worldwide as one of the most difficult to achieve due to the type of terrain and orography.