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Island Danger: Jet Blasts May Cause Death On St. Maarten
We love airplanes, you love airplanes, so let's go look at airplanes! In our Prime Plane Spotting series, we'll let you in on all the best spots to whip out your cameras and binoculars for a piece of the aviation action.
No list of plane spotting locations is complete without highlighting the amazing daredevil antics that occur daily at Princess Juliana Airport on the French/Dutch Caribbean island of St. Maarten.
Due to the island's small size, mountainous center, and popularity with international tourists, jumbo jets from as far as Europe and island hoppers from neighbors like St. John zero in on a short runway that dead-ends right at the beach. This beach, Maho Bay, is open to the public and consistently draws aviation geeks, photographers, and curious tourists to the Sunset Beach Bar for some serious eye-level plane spotting.
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737 Ditches in the Mediterranean... Sorta.
While this video was shot along Spain's Costa del Sol, it was definitely inspired by St. Maarten's Maho Beach, arguably the world's best planespotting strand.
The 747s that touch down in the Caribbean are a bit more, you know, real than this plane, but we still think this clip is cool. After the jump, we've embedded the making of video for your debunking pleasure.
