Can't wait to get to the beach after you land?

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Then this is the holiday destination for you! The island of St. Maartin in the Caribbean is home to the Princess Juliana International Airport. Famous for its short landing strip (only 2,130 metres/7,000 ft), these shocking pictures reveal just how low the planes hover over the beach. There is barely enough room for heavy jets, so the planes approach the island flying extremely low, right over the amazed public! More pics after the jump

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OMG! I'd have to keep a change of trunks in my beach bag...that's friggin' scary.

It fulfills a recurring dream I've had for years...one where I'm in the water at Surfrider Beach and a 747 crashes into the water behind me.

Arrrrrrrgh! :(


Oh hell naw. Nope. There is no way I would be chillin on that beach. You never know when some bullsh*t is going to go down.


You do know you typed in 'pubic' instead of 'public', right?


that looks like a nice quiet day at the beach....


thats st maarten, btw.


St Maarten is not "just off France" it is in the Caribbean...


can you imagine how noisy that is??? not to mention the diesel fumes....what idiot designed that to have planes fly over a beach??


Thankyou for pointing out my mistakes guys! What would i do without my readers!

And Tia, the beach folk are probably so high off the fumes from the planes they are too high to be scared!


What idiot? Don't you think that if there was a feasible alternative it would have been used?! I have flown into similar islands (yes, I am intelligent enough to know that there is a world beyond the US) and they are small, full of hills, etc. and that's the way it has to be. Dumb-de-dumb-dumb.


Was just there 2 weeks ago. It was scary coming in right over people's heads. You could wave and they would wave right back.


That is so cool!

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Thats Fugged!!!


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