Saint Martin 🇧🇶 🇫🇷, Maho Beach

Maho Beach is notable for the fact that a giant passenger liner such as a Boeing 767 or Airbus A320 can fly over your head at a height of only a couple of tens of meters. And the plane can fly over the beach at any time of the day or night. As you know, planes flying over the beach are not an attraction for tourists at all. Flying over a small beach, the plane lands literally behind its fence.

The beach and the beginning of the landing strip are separated by a highway and a fence made of mesh. The airport, located just behind the beach, has a fairly limited strip with a length of only 2,300 meters and ends with Simpson Lagoon. This is a fairly short stretch for large aircraft.

It turns out such a narrow tie, surrounded by water, on which the plane should get. He has to descend as much as possible to land at the very beginning of the lane. Therefore, planes fly over the beach, almost clinging to the heads of tourists with their landing gear.