Jetblast kills tourist at St. Maarten

A woman has been killed at St. Maarten (that tropical part of the Netherlands) after experiencing the so-called ‘jetblast’ of a commercial airliner. She was standing there, probably with many other people, at Maho beach – getting close to the runway of the Princess Juliana airport. 

She was standing there, probably with many other people, at Maho beach – getting close to the runway of the Princess Juliana International Airport. When a plane was departing she was blasted by the expulsion of the jet engines and flew into the air and hit her head against a concrete block. She reportedly is a 57 year old woman from New Zealand. 

She isn’t the first one to get hurt, but she is the first fatal casualty of this ‘tourist-attraction’. In 2000 another tourist got blasted and hurt and sued consequentially because the signs warning you for it ‘weren’t enough’.

Well, judge for yourself, here’s some footage from 2012 and other perilous moments: 

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Abuzer founded DutchReview a decade ago because he thought expats needed it and wanted to make amends for the Dutch cuisine. He has a Masters in Political Science and IT but somewhere always wanted to study history or good old football. He also a mortgage in the Netherlands and will happily tell you too how to get one. Born and raised in Rotterdam, Abuzer now lives in Leiden but is always longing back to his own international year in Italy.

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