Landing of Boeing 747 on St.Maarten Island

October 25, 2008

Do you like summer, beach, exotic places and first of all adventurous flights? Fly to St. Maarten (Dutch Antilles) and you could find out why…

After adventurous landing just something more than 10 meters above tourists sunning on the beach, you will surely want to lay down at the same spot and wait for another airplane to come…

On the 2180 meters long airport runway, which starts just a few meters from the beach lands the biggest airplanes like Boeing 747 and other big size airplanes. When the plane comes near to the runway, it seems that it is going to finish just into the sea.

Tourists come to St. Maarten also because of that phenomenal landing spectacle. Many of those tourists after the flight said, they were sure that airplane would fall to the beach…