Plane captured passing just overhead of people

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Seemingly closer than normal, the plane's wheels look like they could be touched by the people on Maho Beach

Seemingly closer than normal, the plane?s wheels look like they could be touched by the people on Maho Beach

A man has filmed a plane landing at an airport on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin ? which happens to sit so close to a public beach you almost have to duck for cover.

Runway 10 at Princess Juliana International Airport backs onto Maho Beach, on the Dutch side of Saint Martin, 300km east of Puerto Rico.

The slow-motion footage of the plane landing was uploaded to Instagram by San Francisco man Paul Luning last month.

?Flying frequently tends to make one either bitter or obsessed with aviation. I fall into the latter category,? Mr Luning said.

?Visiting Maho Beach in Saint Marteen was always on my bucket list. It?s as crazy as it looks ? planes landing just feet from a public beach.?

The proximity and novelty of a 2300 metre runway sitting next to an otherwise idyllic beach has seen the area become a tourist attraction.

Visitors regularly pose for pictures underneath the landing planes or hold onto the fence and are blasted by the jet exhaust during take-off.

Agencies

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