KLM Boeing 747 landing on St.Maarten Airport.

While searching for some aviation videos on the Internet, I recently discovered this video of a Boeing 747 landing on St.Maarten (Princess Juliana International) Airport (PJIA). Its runway has a total lenght of 7000 feet (2180 meter), which is pretty short for aircraft of this size. As a result these large aircraft have to make an extremely low approach, sometimes just 30 metres above the sun tanning people at the beach.

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