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  • Very interesting- I watched a documentary about this exact place on television a year ago. There was once a devastating crash where I think everyone died, and if you go there today, you can find a lot of remains from that same crash.

  • WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE­EEEEEEE

  • airport built around the concept of fly or die

  • la cosa es el aterrizaje, el despegue no es nada

  • A true "No Go Around" airstrip!

  • Fuck Roller costers. I wanna ride this.

  • Watch how they do it? Uh, they rotate before the end of the strip, just like every other runway in the world. This is a vid hits attempt fail.

  • At the end of the runway, the pilot shuts down the engine, pushes the nose down and screams: "HELL YEAH!!! GLIDE MOTHERFUCKER" :'')

  • im only 12 gosh

  • @katie16ice It means the quality of the video image. 240p is low quality as opposed to 720p or 1080p that are High Definition (high quality).

  • @katie16ice no your not you liar you arnt 11 yet

  • what does 240p mean

  • @katie16ice that u are retard

  • @SODihminen nice grammar. "that u are retard" Maybe you are the retard.

  • 240p. We meet again.

  • YouTube...where civility goes to die.

  • Looks like he's walking the plank

  • AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH­HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH­HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH­HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH­HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

  • V1 is when you start rolling :-)

  • The point of no return is the point of no return at all .

  • Holy hell this place is real?!?!?! I saw it on a flight sim game and thought it was some crazy made up location. Nuts!

  • There's no abort for any reason. Once you commit you're either flying or dying.

  • Fly or Die!

  • Point of no return? What point of no return? lol

  • @ssssroryssss V1 is a speed that indicates that u can't abort takeoff. But in this airport, you can get barely to V1...

  • good GOD!! That really is something else.. amazing airport! Ahah.. using the slope of the runway to give you a little bit of extra acceleration.. GENIUS! :D

  • A very nice runway for take of and even landing!

  • Thank God my shippment of opium made it safely off the ground.

  • habra buena nalgas en lukla?? wonder if there would be nice asses in lukla

  • Well you know what they say....if at first you dont succeed, this probrably aint for you

  • make it or die.

  • why are pilot talk and aviators always generate the most heated discussions?

  • And YouTube tourists, if you look in the comments section below you'll see two idiots arguing; typical Youtube.

  • @RolloTheApollo Well, then - what's your fucking point?

  • @RolloTheApollo This man is wise.

  • @RolloTheApollo How boring.....:-(

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  • Jeronimooooooooooooooooooooooo­o...............

    

  • Is it possible to get there by car ?

  • @Romichouu

    not its not possible yet. i doubt it will be anytime soon. we have a shitty govt in nepal so no developmental works have been carried out since the ouster of the monarchy.

  • @baburambhattarai I doubt someday I'll be enough courageous to take this plane... I think I prefer holed roads with view on this beautiful country

  • @Romichouu its not that bad. u can do it. just make sure to check the weather forecast ahead of time. most people from solu area, mustang area in nepal dont have access to roads so u know its not as bad as u mite think.

  • @baburambhattarai I hope I'll get in the country soon again and maybe will see for that.. Thank you my friend

  • i wanna see a 747 take off from here!!

  • @chris12321222 they do sometime when there is a 150mph from wind  :o)

  • ya no thanks

  • sounds like a motorbike

  • FUCK THAT ! I'd rather hop to Kathmandu !

  • This is the shortest runway in the world.

  • yea i love to fly.... and even this scares the living shit outta me!

  • 0.0

  • wow I want to visit there one day. the mountains look insane. what does it take for a person to live there?

  • Nepal has so many dangerous airport

  • I believe you actually have to get a rating (be qualified) to land on a mountain airstrip. Meaning you have to land and takeoff several times before you can land on these strips by yourself... I would love to try landing/taking off at one of these airstrips.

  • @bmx406 this special kind of rating/qualification is probably called "insanity" lol

  • Bylemore Dam!

  • I admire those pilots. Well done!

  • i used to work for yeti air, its actually not a very difficult take off. Althought the runway is quite short there is ussually an up draft at the end which makes the climb quite easy. I now work for Emirates crew, i vacum the 777's.

  • THESE ARE SMALL PLANES THAT'S WHY THEY WOULDN'T DARE TRY THIS WITH A BIGGER PLANE

  • do they have a instrument app at that airport i will love to see if a real pilot can land with low visibility

  • Fuck that shit

  • i hope some pilots don't have a engine failure at the end of the runway or (if they are crazy enough or just want to commit suicide) take off going towards the cliff

  • run up those engines

  • that's crazy but imagine the beautiful view if you are flying that plane.

  • Normal take-off.

    If not would still take-off.

    Fun.

    I wanto see landings.

  • I've heard most of these flights are to or from katmandu only a short flight away. For what insurance must cost and the short distance covered why the hell aren't they using helicopters?

  • @lighthouscolor they use helicopters as well

  • is that an airport???

  • these guys need aircraft carrier launchers.

  • I'm guessing all the a/c operating out of there have excellent hot-and-high. Either that or a water-meths injector on steroids!

  • The airport is their lifeblood, they depend on it for everything, there are

    no roads to Lukla.

  • When you look at the strip it runs down hill. There are strips like the in New Guinea you land up hill and take off down hill.

  • I've flown in and out of Lukla a few times, and it is a bit harrowing, but the pilots have very good control, by the look of it. The planes are all Dorniers, Otters and a couple of others, flown by Yeti Airlines, Gorkha Air, Sita, Buddha Air etc. Not sure if Yeti services Lukla after their last crash there. No night flights to Lukla, and yes the runway inclination helps to slow down incoming planes and speed up take off runs.

  • Insane! 

  • I believe the name of this airport in Nepali is yourgonnaflyorelsemuthafuka...­.

  • rejected takeoff needs some revision now

  • I'M SURPRISED THERE'S NO GOATS ON THE RUNWAY.

  • that otter

    was reaching..

  • i guess the runway goes down for more speed for take-off, for landing it could reduce speed

  • EEEEEEEEEEEEXXXXXXXXXXTTTTTTTR­EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMMMMMMMMME­EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • what airplane is it?

  • @luimp3 Twin Otter

  • @luimp3 Twin Otter or DO-228

  • Beautiful!

    

  • this is ridiculous..i just had an anxiety attack...

  • Chuck Norris Airways

    :D

  • I saw this ariport on Extreme Airports on the travel channel!

  • You don't see many 747's or A380's landing here. I would like to see it though.

  • @smacman68 I think it's impossible even for 737 or A320

  • hardcore

  • Fuuuuck that! Blow a tire or have an engine failure on T/O and you have zero options. I'd rather go kick a bull in the balls.

  • @PhrynosomaTexas Me too. Only place in the world where you would get a terrain collision warning while still taxiing. fuck that very much.

  • @DaddyMedic Something that sticks with me many years later...an old instructor of mine once told me:

    "There are BOLD pilots, and there are OLD pilots....but there are no BOLD, OLD pilots.

  • My dear American friends!:-) You should learn to take off and sit so, - as this can do only Russian Pilots! The Pilots in Russia - will die to take off and land - even though Ranway - in Taiga,in Siberia - is intended only for very small plane - and this Ranway is not used already more 15 years! You see such, only in Hollywood Cinema!?!:-) That is why You so terribly?!?:-) Keep cool for Russian in future!:-) THEY will be able - else and not such!!:-) But now SEE:

  • @RomanKardaev Tovarish, maybe the fucking English to learn better before posting hmmm? Your message is incomprehensible. You sound like an organ grinder monkey after a night on a vodka binge...bolshaya shiska. Besides, we all know how the Russians die to take off and land in their crappy soviet era rust buckets being held together only by the cobwebs that haven't been disturbed because no Russian mechanic has been looking there. That's kinda why I'm glad I'm not Russian. Russians are careless.

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    add one letter "W" in address

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    Well ?!? I pleased Contact! :-)) In no event, did not want to offend You. Let's that will together look that will die to do the american pilots ?!? :-)You will show me ?!? :-)

    P.s my name - Roman. and I not Pilot - I commander of the tank platoon! This truth.

    P.s.s. -"bolshaya shisHka" :-)

  • @PhrynosomaTexas if you do kick that bull in the balls, will you please film it for us and post on here? lol...

  • @PhrynosomaTexas It doesn't matter which airport you're at if either of those things happen at the right or "wrong" time you're going down...especially an engine failure.

  • @AlexanderRozhenko If you're not a pilot, please don't comment. It will just show you're ignorance. I am a pilot. There are risks, and there are extreme risks. A short runway, running downhill, to a cliff face drop in the Himalayas, a low density altitude....The point is that there are MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH fewer options to come out of it safely. That is my point. Again...unless you are a pilot (other than simulation games), then please don't bother commenting, because I WON'T be interested. 

  • @PhrynosomaTexas If you can't handle comments that don't agree with your posts, maybe you should go into a protective shell and stop posting YouTube videos, or restrict the commentary instead of leaving the forum open. I don't care if you're a pilot or not, you may think you're Charles Lindbergh, a legend in your own mind, but that doesn't make it so. Your attitude kind of reminds me of the "There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots" maxim.

  • @AlexanderRozhenko I can handle the comments. I handled yours quite well simply by pointing out that you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. You are ignorant. Probably wouldn't know what density altitude was if you didn't have google. You can comment all you like. I just don't have to give a shit or ascribe any weight to it since you are clearly NOT a pilot. And your maxim makes zero sense in this context, and you don't really have the background to use it either. Stick to F/S

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  • @PhrynosomaTexas Well you might have become a "rent-a-pilot" by going to some slack-jawed yokel's flight school, but as someone with a background in atmospheric physics I can assure you the density altitude is one of the simplest equations I've ever had to solve. While you may not have the confidence in your own education and experience to land at an airport like Lukla, it's nice to see there are pilots who can do it. Now, go lick that bull's balls or whatever idiotic statement you made. :)

  • @AlexanderRozhenko Bwahaha...The insult bears no sting if it's not true, moron. Once again you show your complete ineptitude in this area. It's not a "calculation" that is the factor here Weisen-shit-for-brains. Of course the calculation is easy to make. But see here we are talking about the REAL world where these factors become more than just numbers as it relates to lift, thrust, weight, drag. This is why we don't let dip shit academics doing anything real in this world..like fly a plane LOL

  • @PhrynosomaTexas Again, you change the argument. First it was "you wouldn't even know what density altitude is" and now it's "the real world where these factors are more than just numbers." Will you make up your mind, jackass? Each time you lose a point in the argument you change it to something else. I'm still waiting on your genius response to what you'd do in the event of an engine failure at the end of the runway at any airport with unforgiving terrain, since that was my original comment.

  • @AlexanderRozhenko I didn't change anything shit for brains. Still steadily pointing out that you are not a pilot...therefore...not qualified to be the arbiter of ANY answer I give. When you are A PILOT..then maybe we talk about it. There's a reason we don't ask a mechanic to look at our teeth or a dentist to look at our car. I won't argue Coriolis effect or other nebulous weather scenarios, if you will just STFU and realize YOU are NOT a PILOT. You are not qualified to ask, as if you know shit

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  • @AlexanderRozhenko No...if you are not a certified pilot, you don't have standing to be the arbiter of a fucking thing relating to what someone who IS a pilot knows and judging whether their answer to your vague and childish scenarios is correct. Simple enough for you moron? You are not a pilot. You are surely not an instructor pilot...so how is it that you think you know jack shit about deciding appropriateness of my answer?

  • @PhrynosomaTexas First, WHAT answer? You haven't given one except to say 1) I didn't know what density altitude is and 2) When you lost that argument, you switched to saying it didn't matter in the real world. You then went on to pontificate about your "credentials" and how nobody understands flying except someone who spent $40 an hour. When, as I've pointed out numerous times already, an engine failure at any airport could be disastrous. I guess you're so full of hot air the plane would float.

  • @AlexanderRozhenko I know this logic thing is hard for you to follow, but please try. First, no argument has been lost by me. you have not established that you knew what density altitude was before this conversation, nor how to calculate it. It was part of my training and part of life as a pilot to know this. You want me to assume that you know. I don't know that you do. And knowing how to calculate it means nothing if you don't know what to do with it because you - aren't A PILOT

  • @PhrynosomaTexas Just as you haven't established any credentials that you are actually a pilot or know jack about aviation. Prove it. That's what you're telling me to do. You aren't an authority on anything, and your pathetic clinging to assert some sort of authority over me isn't working. I haven't said anything except an engine out could be catastrophic, no matter which airport it occurred at. A fact that any idiot except you knows to be a fact.

  • @AlexanderRozhenko Anyone who actually IS a PILOT will be able to tell who is and who is NOT. I know what I am talking about. You don't. You came along and wanted to make some critique of my assessment of the t/o hazards of this particular field..but you only show your own ignorance. Tell me, does it make you feel knowledgeable to assert cliched, vague, or elementary statements, as if you are wise and experienced? What's the matter? Couldn't come up with a keen observation?

  • @PhrynosomaTexas I'm still waiting on your revelation, that somehow airplanes don't need engines, and that even when they fail it doesn't matter because of density altitude and $40 flight lessons. Hell, a tire blowout doesn't matter as long as it's not a Lukla, according to your logic.

  • @AlexanderRozhenko I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that according to how you argue, you must be either 1) female 2) liberal and/or 3) under 30. Only those categories of people argue as nonsensically as you do. How you gathered all that from my statements would be laughable, if I wasn't long ago bored with your complete lack of knowledge in this area, and thus, inability to hold a decent logical argument. You first have to have knowledge of something relative. You don't.

  • @PhrynosomaTexas It appears as though you have never been confronted with logic. Go back to my original statement, the very first one that I posted. That's basically what it said: an engine out at the wrong time could be disastrous, no matter if it was at Lukla or not. You implied that that would only be a concern at Lukla because there's no room for error. There are lots of airports where there's no room for error. It's amazing that something that simple and abstract set you off.

  • @AlexanderRozhenko You are sooo smart with your simple and abstract comments, aren't you? Never having to put any real knowledge of anything to a test. What exactly is the fucking point then of pointing out the obvious, if it is so obvious, nimrod! An engine out anywhere *"could" be disastrous? How did we ever overlook your stellar wit? The only thing that I implied, was that you are a moron, who is not a pilot, who is a petty troll, and who is wasting bandwidth.

  • @AlexanderRozhenko I implied no such thing other than there are fewer safe options here. You attempted to sound educated by implying you are "going down" "especially" if engine failure. You don't know shit. Just STFU asshole. I'll take sliding off a threshold into a marsh or even across a highway to this place any day, but your just some moron who likes to comment on shit he knows nothing about. You really made your intellectual mark, commenting that a plane w/ engine failure would come down LOL

  • @PhrynosomaTexas And you've really made a mark stating that you'd like to fly into a marsh or across a highway. Well, I hope you do, and soon. :) With your cocky ass attitude, it won't be long.

  • @AlexanderRozhenko Yeah...seeing as how none of my comments related to safe operational envelopes, I must not know anything about it. I'm sure a wanna-be weather man knows so much more than a pilot about what the risks are? Seeing as how I've been doing this 20 years... It's bound to happen anytime now. Happiness would be seeing your ass even trying to taxi in a straight line, or better yet, off this cliff face in the mountains. LOL

  • @AlexanderRozhenko Oh, and engine out "could" be catastrophic. My, how insightful you are. What a fucking shame you aren't with NTSB....wait. Maybe you are LOL.

  • @PhrynosomaTexas That simple comment was enough to send you into a rage, bringing up all your "credentials" which I'm sure most people laugh at. All you have is being a mediocre pilot, so I guess I should really be happy for you.

  • @AlexanderRozhenko Again...nothing here for ya ace. You don't know what kind of pilot I am, save a better one than you are, because you AREN'T ONE. No rage here. Just not willing to let your stupidity and feeble attempt at commentary stand unchallenged. I commented that engine failure or blown tire on t/o here would leave zero options, meaning, retard, that at most other fields there ARE. My comment has 45 thumbs up. Lets see how many your insightful ones get? Hmm?

  • @PhrynosomaTexas Which is why I posted early that unless somebody took $40 flight lessons (LMFAO at you attempting to brag about that) they'd better bow down before you. Winning a popularity contest doesn't impress me. Only statements that are logical and coherent matter to me. Well, and not laced with profanity as yours are. As I've already said, "There are lots of airports where there's no room for error. It's amazing that something that simple and abstract set you off."

  • @AlexanderRozhenko Better keep trying if logic and coherence is your goal. OMG...there are *lots of a/ps where there is no room for error!? Now I know without a doubt...you are a dumbshit academic.

  • @PhrynosomaTexas Better to be a dumbshit academic than just a dumbshit. :) I love how you're making up things about me as we go along. But, I don't have any more time for you, microbrain. With your supreme level of overconfidence in yourself and your "qualifications" it won't be long before you become a statistic. You're living proof that any dumbass can fly an airplane. No wonder most accidents are caused by pilot error, with fools like you at the helm.

  • @AlexanderRozhenko I doubt you are even an academic now, with your use of the word "dude". Maybe an undergrad. Certainly not an advanced degree. My confidence, asshole, is in that I know what you don't know about flying, and that's all that need be said. You aren't qualified to judge my opinion or experience, and your attempt to follow my comments with some tripe platitude is laughable.

  • @AlexanderRozhenko You aren't qualified to come behind and comment on my comment. Put it that way. Your commenting on a pilot's opinion of this particular runway, means about as much as a British person's opinion of fine dental work.

  • @PhrynosomaTexas Who the hell are you anyway? You're a nobody, dude. Face it. Nobody gives a damn that you got a Pilot Certificate out of a Cracker Jack box. If you were a good pilot, you'd be posting your own videos instead of other people's videos.

  • @AlexanderRozhenko "dude"?...yeah...that pretty much solidifies it. You weren't even born the first time I went up. Based on this post, I'm going to call bullshit on you knowing much of anything, besides how to roll a joint. You probably don't even actually have a college degree. Who over the age of 20 still says "dude"? My IP was Col James P. McMakin @ Daniel Field. You go tell the Col. he trains people to get a cracker jack certificates. You aren't even worthy of hanging in the FBO shithead.

  • @PhrynosomaTexas Moreover, I'd like to know just exactly what your options would be for an engine out seconds after takeoff after you've passed the end of the runway at ANY airport, since you're such an expert on aviation. That is, unless there is an open field right in front of you.

  • @AlexanderRozhenko My options would depend on terrain and many factors, like the a/c in question for one. You didn't even state whether it was a multi or single. If you want to know about flying Jack...go buy a log book, text books, an E6-B flight computer, and go spend $40/hr for dual instruction like I did - asshole. I don't have time to play stupid what-ifs with a moron like you, as if you are wise enough or experienced enough to even pose such a question to me.

  • @PhrynosomaTexas It should be obvious that I'm talking about a single-engine aircraft. But, a piece of garbage like you who probably makes little more than a fast-food restaurant manager couldn't figure something like that out.

  • @AlexanderRozhenko Oh, yes, of course...in a video that documents multi engine take-off we should assume based on NOTHING that you are proposing a single engine scenario. It should be obvious! The only thing obvious is you are out of your league even commenting here. Go the fuck away retard.

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  • @AlexanderRozhenko I'm sooo glad to see you feel you are smart enough to answer your own vague scenarios. What a relief it must be for you. And wow...going out on a limb there by saying "many of them can fly with one engine". LOL. Again, dumbass. You aren't a pilot = not qualified to be the judge of what I know about flying. I've been flying since I was a teenager, and bought a plane at 19. I don't have to justify shit to a moron like you who surely has never even made a single t/o.

  • @PhrynosomaTexas P.S. It's show "your" ignorance not show "you're" ignorance. Before you start calling other people morons and pointing out their supposed ignorance instead of your own, I'd suggest you go back to grade school and learn how to use contractions, Mr. Lindbergh.

  • @AlexanderRozhenko Bwahaha...again. Wow. Trying to score a sorry point for a silly grammatical error that is typically more so an oversight. That really goes a loooong way to make the case you aren't an imbecile, commenting on things you are not qualified, experienced, or type certified to comment on. You are not certified for this type, moron. Now go away. When you even solo an a/c all by your lonesome, then come back and try to tell me something.

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  • @AlexanderRozhenko I'm glad you revel in seeing your own trollness, but you err in assuming a moron like you, commenting outside his area of expertise, adds any stress to my life. Sorry to disappoint. I just so happen to be enjoying some down time. What exactly is the "wrong time"? Is there a "right" time for an engine failure you fucking retard? Tell you what - I'll take the engine failure coming off any RNWY @ KAFW, and you can take it at Vr here @ Lukla if it's all the same to you.

  • @PhrynosomaTexas Actually, it's been quite enjoyable watching the reactions of someone with such a low level of intelligence as yourself. Every few sentences you seem to have to drop some sort of profanity, while clinging to claim you're some sort of nouveau-Lindbergh. All this bickering for a simple comment that an engine out at the "wrong" time would result in a crash. Even an non-expert knows an engine out while cruising wouldn't be as much of a problem as during takeoff or landing. LMFAO.

  • @AlexanderRozhenko I've never seen anyone say less using more fucking words that you do, moron.

    I only claim to be a pilot...which is a damn sight higher on the food chain than you will ever be when it comes to having any standing, what-so-ever, commenting on an aviation oriented video. You aren't qualified to wipe the windscreen of my a/c. Shit-for-brains.

  • @PhrynosomaTexas Apparently, a big strong lad like you doesn't need any sort of propulsion to push his airplane along. It just flies on because you willed it.

  • @PhrynosomaTexas While not a pilot, I would like to comment on a non-flying issue I have with you: your hypocrisy. You complain about another poster's ignorance yet you are ignorant of a 3rd grade spelling rule about the words "your" and "you're". "Your" refers to possession, while "you're" is a contraction of the words "you are". I suggest, Mr. Pilot, that you put your own house in order before you attack another person's "ignorance". Now go get a Carbon Cub SS and be done with short fields...

  • @beeroosterm Wow, another dumbass with nothing better to do than to point out a single type'o, as if that illustrates anything more than a singular grammatical oversight, OR elevates yourself and that other dumbass intellectually. Frankly - Fuck Off.

  • @PhrynosomaTexas If you're (got it?) going to be picayune and point out other peoples' ignorance, then you must be prepared to face your own. And it's "typo" - not "type'o", dumbass. Being a pilot evidently took too much time away from your grade-school English class; your continued ignorance of simple spelling rules is painful to watch. Write me some more, Texas, and I will continue to point out your ignorance - otherwise, perhaps you should lighten up...

  • @beeroosterm Dear wanna be english professor and troll, who comments on how other people type things on youtube, being too ignorant of the subject matter to have a real opinion relative to the video, and you think this is a formal environment...you are a one trick pony...and it's not a very good trick at that. And dumbass...I can spell type'o, in informal word itself , any goddamned way I please, so fuck off moron. Go troll with someone who gives a fuck what you think.

  • @PhrynosomaTexas You very obviously give a fuck - otherwise you wouldn't respond. And your ignorance gets worse with every response. You're (get it?) an angry man, Texas - a perfect foil for anyone to fuck with. Grow up

  • @PhrynosomaTexas I just commented on your grammar and spelling so I could point out what a tool you are, but since you insist on being a douchebag, I thought I'd point out to those less experienced something very obvious, Mr. Pilot: you're (get it?) no pilot. If the lack of spelling skills didn't give it away, surely the comment about "low density altitude" should. Even a student pilot is well aware of the risks of a HIGH density altitude takeoff off a mountain runway. Busted. You're the troll.

  • @beeroosterm paragraph, ignore