Originally Posted by JDiver
(MDY has a hospital with a physician, and when I was there the largest income stream earned by Midway Phoenix Corp. was from aircraft and fuel fees. They also had a hyperbaric chamber, of interest to those of us who were there for the diving. One more problem with MDY is that daytime ops can be, er, disrupted by Laysan albatross, or "Gooney Bird," strikes.)
That's a very important comment. Yes, there may be a landing field for a 2-engine a/c within the time limits, but there may be no emergency infrastructure available to deal with it...