Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: A Chinese Life Is Worth Less Than a Middle Eastern Life [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Okay. So again, look at those images I showed you. See where Tibet is? It spans the majority of a geographical feature known (aptly enough) as the Tibetan plateau. This plateau was formed when the Indian continent crammed itself against the Eurasian plate a few million years ago. To say that it's high altitude would be an understatement. Denver is high-altitude, but Lhasa is beyond even that.
High altitude means thin air. Thin air makes it hard to fly; planes have trouble maintaining lift in thin atmosphere. I'm not certain on all the technical aspects there, but I know at least that much.
Next you have another geographical problem. You're going to be entering chinese airspace illegally do do this "flytilla." So you're naturally going to want to spend as little time in China as possible. So a flight entry from the north, west, or especially east just is not going to happen; you're coming from the south. Now the southern edge of Tibet has this mountain range, known as the Himalayas. Maybe you've heard of them.
You're not going to get over the Himalayas with a "flytilla."
Tibet is one of the world's most geographically isolated populated places, if not the most isolated place. There's a reason that that Tibet managed to maintain a medieval theocratic monarchy into the middle of the 20th century.