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Tourist Is Killed Watching Planes at Saint Martin’s Princess Juliana International Airport

July 14, 2017 Princess_juliana_international_airport_approach
FighterSweep Staff No Comments Commercial Aviation, News, Photos, Video

Saint Martin’s Princess Juliana International Airport has long been famous for people getting up close and personal with large aircraft landing at the airport.

A 57-year-old woman vacationing in the Caribbean island of Saint Martin was killed after a blast from a nearby jet knocked her to the ground.

The incident occurred on Wednesday at Maho Beach — a popular tourist destination in Sint Maarten (the Dutch side of Saint Martin) — which is famous for its proximity to the Princess Juliana International Airport.

Officials say the woman had been holding onto a fence that separates the beach from the airport when winds generated by the jet’s engines blasted her back.  – Fox News

Featured image By Lawrence Lansing (Own work: http://picasaweb.google.com/fuzzynerd/) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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