The scary reason planes won’t fly over this massive

Thousands of planes fly overhead at any given time — but none are likely to cruise over Tibet.

On platforms like Flightradar24, which constantly maps commercial flights across the world, the air traffic gap over Tibet is unmissable, as most aircrafts avoid flying directly over the autonomous region unless they need to land at one of its five airports.

Known as “the roof of the world,” the sky-scraping mountaintops of the Himalayas — which are also home to Earth’s tallest peak, Mt. Everest — make the Tibetan Plateau treacherous to fly over