75. Nantucket Memorial Airport – Massachusetts, USA
Year of construction: 1930s
Risk factors: Fog
Nantucket Memorial Airport is the second-busiest airport in Massachusetts. It started as a cornfield in the 1930s before it was plowed over to make a landing strip. Fast-forwarding nearly a decade, the airport is a hub for Tradewind, Cape Air, Nantucket Airlines, and Southern Airways.
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There is a lot of corporate travel to and from Nantucket, particularly during the spring and summer. Heavy fog is a reason this airport could be considered dangerous, though there hasn’t been an accident in quite some time. In 1958, twenty-two passengers were killed when a Convair CV-240-2 tried to land in heavy fog and missed the runway by 1,450 feet.