Maho Beach
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[Maho Beach is a beach on the Dutch side of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, in the country of Sint Maarten. It is famous for the Princess Juliana International Airport adjacent to the beach.
Arriving aircraft must touch down as close as possible to the beginning of Runway 10 due to the short runway length of 2,180 metres (7,150 ft), resulting in aircraft on their final approach flying over the beach at minimal altitude.
Due to the unique proximity of low flying airliners, the location is very popular with plane spotters. This is one of the few places in the world where aircraft can be viewed in their flightpath just outside the end of the runway. Watching airliners pass over the beach is such a popular activity that daily arrivals and departures airline timetables are displayed on a board in most bars and restaurants on the beach, and the Sunset Beach Bar and Grill has a speaker on its outside deck that broadcasts the radio transmissions between pilots and the airport's control tower.
There is a danger of people standing on the beach being blown into the water because of the jet blast from aircraft taking off from runway 10. The local government warns that closely approaching and departing aircraft can [result in serious injury and/or death]. An additional fence has been added recently behind runway 10, in order to prevent irresponsible people from hanging on to the main fence surrounding the runway in order to experience being blasted by the jet flow. The beach itself is white sand and has little or no vegetation because of jet blast erosion]. – Wikipedia
Arriving aircraft must touch down as close as possible to the beginning of Runway 10 due to the short runway length of 2,180 metres (7,150 ft), resulting in aircraft on their final approach flying over the beach at minimal altitude.
Due to the unique proximity of low flying airliners, the location is very popular with plane spotters. This is one of the few places in the world where aircraft can be viewed in their flightpath just outside the end of the runway. Watching airliners pass over the beach is such a popular activity that daily arrivals and departures airline timetables are displayed on a board in most bars and restaurants on the beach, and the Sunset Beach Bar and Grill has a speaker on its outside deck that broadcasts the radio transmissions between pilots and the airport's control tower.
There is a danger of people standing on the beach being blown into the water because of the jet blast from aircraft taking off from runway 10. The local government warns that closely approaching and departing aircraft can [result in serious injury and/or death]. An additional fence has been added recently behind runway 10, in order to prevent irresponsible people from hanging on to the main fence surrounding the runway in order to experience being blasted by the jet flow. The beach itself is white sand and has little or no vegetation because of jet blast erosion]. – Wikipedia
![[Air Fraance in St. Maarten. The landing pattern at SXM (St. Maarten) takes planes in low over Maho Beach, making shots like these as easy as pointing the camera in the direction of the engine roar]. (Photo by David Gilford)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/wow/2013/0000a98b_big.jpg "[Air Fraance in St. Maarten. The landing pattern at SXM (St. Maarten) takes planes in low over Maho Beach, making shots like these as easy as pointing the camera in the direction of the engine roar]. (Photo by David Gilford)")
[Air Fraance in St. Maarten. The landing pattern at SXM (St. Maarten) takes planes in low over Maho Beach, making shots like these as easy as pointing the camera in the direction of the engine roar]. (Photo by David Gilford)
Landing at Princess Juliana Airport, St Maarten, Netherlands Antilles. (Photo by Jonathan E. Shaw)
![Sunset beach, pt. 3. This beach is situated directly between the end of princess juliana international airport's main landing strip and the water, so it's a great place to see low-flying aircraft... just don't get too close to the exhaust of planes about to take off! (Photo by [Cowboy] Ben Alman)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/wow/2013/0000a991_big.jpg "Sunset beach, pt. 3. This beach is situated directly between the end of princess juliana international airport's main landing strip and the water, so it's a great place to see low-flying aircraft... just don't get too close to the exhaust of planes about to take off! (Photo by [Cowboy] Ben Alman)")
[Sunset beach, pt. 3. This beach is situated directly between the end of princess juliana international airport's main landing strip and the water, so it's a great place to see low-flying aircraft... just don't get too close to the exhaust of planes about to take off!] (Photo by [Cowboy] Ben Alman)
Airbus 340 landing in St. Maarten. (Photo by Oldcanonuser)
![[Plane Landing over Maho Beach, St. Martin. From our trip to St. Maarten. Planes came in to land very low over this beach right next to our resort (Sonesta Maho), very cool]. (Photo by R.G. Ewing)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/wow/2013/0000a98c_big.jpg "[Plane Landing over Maho Beach, St. Martin. From our trip to St. Maarten. Planes came in to land very low over this beach right next to our resort (Sonesta Maho), very cool]. (Photo by R.G. Ewing)")
[Plane Landing over Maho Beach, St. Martin. From our trip to St. Maarten. Planes came in to land very low over this beach right next to our resort (Sonesta Maho), very cool]. (Photo by R.G. Ewing)
![[KLM 747 Landing in St. Maarten]. (Photo by Aurimas)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/wow/2013/0000a98e_big.jpg "[KLM 747 Landing in St. Maarten]. (Photo by Aurimas)")
[KLM 747 Landing in St. Maarten]. (Photo by Aurimas)
![[AirFrance Boeing 747 landing in St. Maarten]. (Photo by Aurimas)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/wow/2013/0000a992_big.jpg "[AirFrance Boeing 747 landing in St. Maarten]. (Photo by Aurimas)")
[AirFrance Boeing 747 landing in St. Maarten]. (Photo by Aurimas)
[KLM 747 Landing in St. Maarten]. (Photo by Aurimas)
[SXM, Princess Juliana, Saint-Martin: Aéroport extrême]. (Photo by Jean-François Renaud)
[KLM landing at SXM, April 2011]. (Photo by Alljengi)
![[Landing. In St Maarten, there is a named named Maho, directly across the street from Princess Juliana airport's landing strip. This gives adventurous beach-goers an unforgettable experience as planes come in. This particular plane is by no means the largest to land here]. (Photo by Paul Brousseau)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/wow/2013/0000a996_big.jpg "[Landing. In St Maarten, there is a named named Maho, directly across the street from Princess Juliana airport's landing strip. This gives adventurous beach-goers an unforgettable experience as planes come in. This particular plane is by no means the largest to land here]. (Photo by Paul Brousseau)")
[Landing. In St Maarten, there is a named named Maho, directly across the street from Princess Juliana airport's landing strip. This gives adventurous beach-goers an unforgettable experience as planes come in. This particular plane is by no means the largest to land here]. (Photo by Paul Brousseau)
[Spent the majority of the day at Maho Beach, right at the end of the runway for the Princess Juliana International Airport on the Sint Maarten side. Because the public beach and road are at the very end of the runway, you can experience the large (and small) airplanes landing and taking off]. (Photo by Curtis & Renee)
[Landing at Princess Juliana airport]. (Photo by Michelle R.)
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