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Close landing at St Maartins

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  • 26-06-2007 11:38am
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    yomchi
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    Boy does this pilot take it close, I wouldn't like to be on a double decker bus heading home past this airport :eek:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAfQwDizpRo


    Thanks Roundy for the help! :)


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    county
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    :eek: bloody hell


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    pclancy
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    Ive always wanted to go there. It really is a plane lovers paradise in a paradise!


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    electric69
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    lol.thats a pretty shallow landing


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    RadioRetro
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    More shots of approaches to St.Maartens. I believe the beach has now been removed, whether by nature or man, I don't know.


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    highlydebased
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    Theres plenty of videos with low approaches.

    Apparently a storm destroyed the beach- it has happened before so I am told.


    Lanzarote is the european version of Sint maartin! :D:D:D


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    projectmayhem
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    seen a few vids of this nature before... has there ever been accidents caught on camera/tape?


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    Deacon Blues
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    Hoping to get there later this year with the wife for a couple of weeks. Maho Beach was indeed washed away by hurricane seas a few years ago, but the natural current restored it within a couple of months. The fence has been dragged down the runway on a few occasions wrapped around landing gear. The landing in the video is particularly low ... normally they are a few feet higher. The regular traffic is a KLM 747-400 several times a week, Air France A-340 daily and CorseAir 747 (-300 I think) twice a week, as well as numerous AA and US Airways 757s, and Continental 737s daily, along with loads of island hoppers and charters. One of the 'fun' things is to hang onto the low chain link fence as a 747 spools up a few feet in front of you, and 'fly' horizontally in the jetwash. an exhilerating experience, although it's usual to get a sandblasted face. The guy taking the video was just at the Sunset Bar, where the have live ATC, and all the daily scheduled arrivals chalked on a surf board. It's a mecca for spotters and photographers.

    Apart from Maho Beach and Princess Juliana Airport, Sint Maartens/Saint Martins (it's part French, Part Dutch) is a pretty fabulous place.


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