Photo of the week!!

Yeah, that approach caused quite a stir down here. One of my friends was having a burger at sunset and said the wheels cleared the fence by about 10inches.

I was down there myself 2 days ago, and saw one guy being blown into the ocean by the AF340 taking off. its quite a fun place to watch the not to smart ones get the full blast in their face.

One guy had his brand new digital $5000 camera (or so he was telling just about everyone wanting to listen…before he walked to the end of the runway) sandblasted and the lens came off when he landed on his ass in the sand. Last seen walking to his car with a very red face

All good fun, and a normal day at Maho Beach

HaHa look at the sand!

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5769968

Heres another angle

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5764896

here is another one of the same 747.

I wonder whether either of the chaps crouching down and clinging on to the fence for dear life managed to get a decent shot?

Oh!

SHOT… Had to read it again… :p

Sorry, couldn’t resist.

It’s not even on the bit that means displaced threshold is it? So it’s landed on what is official an area unsuitable for movements?

That’s how I see it too.
It’s amazing that putting a 744 down at that point, that the asphalt was actually able to take the weight.

Your so lucky! The only place I can think of that I could see planes so low was in Playa Den Bossa! lol

How about Lanzarote?

Your so lucky! The only place I can think of that I could see planes so low was in Playa Den Bossa! lol

I sure did mate went in 2004 with mum dad and bro 😎 at first me mum did not like it with the planes flying very very low so I told her to stop moaning your on a beach (which my mum likes doing on hoildays laying on beach ) and shut up :diablo: we looked forward and an AF A340-300 flew over are heads nearly hiting mine when i stood up 🙂

james

u lucky lad mate damn u lol !!

It’s no fake, Steve.

I’ve seen other shots from the same sequence, and shots by another photographer taken from a slightly different angle that corroborate it 100%.

That’s an incredible shot and an incredible piece of flying by the pilot in charge. That’s a pretty low approach! Brillian!

I’d say it’s a fake….KLM pilots would be far too professional to land that short of the piano keys

Actually my friends have just got back from there and they said it was very scary. The plane actually touched down just after the 2nd yellow arrow that is in the pic… Look out in a few days for the touch-down shot from James Rowson.

Apparently the airport was closed for a while the next day while a few people were taking pictures of the tire marks on the runway :confused:

Its probably perspective, the plane is probably higher than it looks, also it is seriously moving, so it will only be a split second before it reaches the threshold & touchdown point.

You went to Saint Maarten? Lucky guy!

I sure did mate went in 2004 with mum dad and bro 😎 at first me mum did not like it with the planes flying very very low so I told her to stop moaning your on a beach (which my mum likes doing on hoildays laying on beach ) and shut up :diablo: we looked forward and an AF A340-300 flew over are heads nearly hiting mine when i stood up 🙂

james

Perhaps Air France and KLM have an inter company competition….who can make the photographer bounce furthest with all the jet wash and wake turbulance?

Big stepladder!

You went to Saint Maarten? Lucky guy!

Fantastic shot, I too would love to go there!

That shot is nothing to me now I went there in 2004 if its the place im thinking off.

James

I’m not sure if that is a joke… There are no smilies….