Apparently, in this case, your fear is reasonable (see focusboy's remark).

Just remember: you're exponentionally more likely to die driving to the airport than you are to die in a plane crash. That should make you feel better :)

ive talked with a lot of pilots up here and almost all of them agree that it is one of the hardest most dangerous airports. extremely steep entry/takeoff along with varied conditions and no room for error.

I drive or fly into Eagle. It's a beautiful drive in the spring/summer/fall.

I fly into it twice a year. I'm literally terrified until touchdown. Every time I hope that weather cancels the flight and we'll have to take a bus. Phobias are a funny thing.

I've been to Aspen and have seen that airport. It is surrounded by mountains and is very very small. You have to be a specialist in order to fly into an "airport" (I say airport because there is only one runway, and no terminal) like that. Also, at that high of an altitude, up in the mountains, the wind is pretty…

I'm currently in Aspen and there are tremendous wind gusts here. I'm certain it's what took that plane down. My brother in law went out skiing (the rest of us stayed home because it's 9 degrees out) and he said at times it was difficult to get down the mountain because of the unusual gusts rushing up from the…

Meh I've seen worse driving on the Deegan

Basketball is a poor example because there are only 10-15 people on the team. The Yankees and Dodgers payroll is over $25o million just for the players salaries alone. Once you add in coaches salary, support staff, costs to own and maintain the stadium, and their whole minor league farm system I think you'd find…

I'm not all sure about that. Real Madrid's revenue for example was $660 million last year. There are plenty of European and NFL football clubs/teams that in revenue and valuation are higher than the top F1 teams.

Not "one of," THE most expensive sport on the planet. The top teams' $500 million budgets dwarfs the size of those of any other individual sports team. The NBA, with some of the highest paid athletes on the planet, by comparison has a salary cap of $58 million (with costs outside salaries being almost negligible by…

I was expecting total overtakes to be something like 18. ZING!

V8 hybrid? Why not just focus on making it lightweight and put a 400hp turbo Inline 5 or something.

Sweet! I was wondering if the owner was actually going to take this thing out and compete in it. Good for them.

Rally new years is awesome.

What should happen, and still may, is to have the journalist's creds pulled for a year, or forever, for this gross intrusion.

This guy was no journalist. He was merely a reporter — and a bad one at that. Actual journalists are pretty rare these days.

Reminds me of Rush. "Tell the Priest to fuck off, I'm still alive"