maybe i like life too much............. but i guess when you get older the word danger is not so attractive .......
there is no end to people not understanding this danger .......i think this will never end up good standing behind a jet engine...........
just the fumes alone ........ maybe if you area tourist who are ususally drunk always anyways .................well its definetely not a pussy way to go .....
World
Tourist killed by jet blast at notorious Caribbean airport
Gavin Haines,The Telegraph 1 hour 49 minutes ago
A tourist has died at one of the world’s most dangerous airports.
The woman – a 57-year-old New Zealander – was reportedly watching a plane take off from the notorious Princess Juliana Airport in St Maarten when she was knocked over by the thrust from one of its engines.
She is understood to have died in hospital where she was being treated for head injuries.
Sandwiched between a busy beach on one side and a mountain on the other, the Caribbean airport is renowned as one of the world’s most dangerous spots to go plane watching. Big jets swoop in low over the beach to touch down on the runway, a spectacle that attracts many thrill-seeking tourists.
Though signs warn of the dangers posed by air blasts, many tourists still cling onto the fence separating the beach from the runway to feel the force of the thrust.
The as-yet-unnamed tourist, who was reportedly accompanied by members of her family, is understood to have been holding onto the fence before being knocked over.
Rolando Brison, St Maarten’s director of tourism, told the New Zealand Herald that he had spoken to the family of the dead woman.
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“I met with the family of the deceased this evening and while they recognised that what they did was wrong, through the clearly visible danger signs, they regret that risk they took turned out in the worst possible way,” he said.
Local police, meanwhile, issued a fresh warning to tourists who were thinking of visiting the airport.
“Many tourists come to the island to experience the thrills of the landing of approaching aircrafts flying low above their heads and the holding on to the airport fence and standing in the jet blast of large aircraft taking off,” police told the BBC.
“Doing this is, however, extremely dangerous.”
In 2012, a young woman was seriously injured after being sent flying by the blast of an aircraft. Footage of the incident shows the woman losing her grip on a fence as the aircraft fires up its engines.
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