Posted on 07/13/2017 5:21:05 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
...........as usual, the person writing this article gets it about half right. I lived about 500 yards from this very spot in most of 2012 and was there many days per week. A few facts:
1. This is a BIG tourist attraction therefore condoned by the Dutch government.
2. Within a 100 feet each side of the spot where this woman was allegedly killed, there are bars with hundreds of people drinking and watching the planes land and takeoff.
3. Hundreds of people each day hold on to the fence and are not injured.
4. There has to be more to this story. I suspect that she was drunk as Cooter Brown and was blown back and hit her head on concrete barriers.
LOL. It wasn’t the fall that killed her. It was the sudden stop.
Nah gear was always down and at about 50 feet or less above it was intense.
I’ve been there and seen people do this.
Drunk tourists and jet blast.
Bad combination.
Traffic stops for a reason and these idiots don’t get it
Wonder what was going through her head ??
My wife and I got blown into the water by blast from a American Airlines 767 there several years ago. It was pretty scary. Could actually feel the heat of the jet blast. I can’t remember if we were holding on to the fence.
Good thing he was wearing his K-pot.
The Jet ExHuast????
“Most of the ‘jet’ blast is actually air being blown backwards by a fan.”
No need to put ‘quotes’ around jet. That still counts as a jet blast. The jets in a Jacuzzi still are jets. A jet of something is just a fast moving narrow stream.
or the concrete curb
Ok,ok you are correct. I put quotes because most people understand jet to mean a stream of burned hydrocarbons - at least in the context of “””jet””” engines :)
I’ve been there several times. When you land it looks you are literally landing on the water.
“why there are no deflectors like at most air ports”
been visiting Sint marten for over 20 years-(dutch spelling)- sint Martin is the French side of the island-
Why no deflectors?- supposedly has to do with how far those
deflectors have to be from the takeoff area-
a few years ago they upgraded not only the terminal to
handle jumbo jets - BUT TO COME INTO COMPLIANCE! with international regulations for these Jumbo jets!- the
runway was just barely legal-no wiggle room for error-
there is only 1 runway and No side taxi ways- any ways, they dredged more sand and rock and extended the runway
by a couple of hundred feet - this island use to be Quaint-
now it is nothing like 20 years ago-...never understood
the “hanging on the fence while hot jet exhaust knocked you over- the biggest worry?- fine sand pebbles smashing into your eyes at 100mph- seen quite a few people injured this way!-but will be going back next winter.. having a BBC on the beach- watching the ship tourists get blasted and drunk...by 6 pm- with ships leaving, the place becomes
almost deserted (comparatively) and we enjoy the beautiful sunset with out the distractions- oh 1 more thing, if a storm hits the waves fill that street with a FOOT OF SAND!
they have a front in loader to dump it back on the beach- smile ..be happy
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I sat on that beach for hours while heavies touched down within the fence. It’s quite a humbling experience. But I’d never subject myself to the jet wash at run-up, that’s insane.
Yikes. RIP.
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