Plane Danger Beach Maho St Maarten Tourism VR Map Links

Beacon Hill Road, Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten

Due to the unique proximity of low flying airliners, the location is very popular with plane spotters. This is one of the few places in the world where aircraft can be viewed in their flight path just outside the end of the runway. Watching airliners pass over the beach is such a popular activity that daily arrivals and departures airline timetables are displayed on a board in most bars and restaurants on the beach, and the Sunset Bar and Grill formerly had a speaker on its outside deck that broadcast radio transmissions between pilots and the airport's control tower. The speaker was no longer in use by August 2015.(citation needed)

Maho Beach is unusually close to the threshold of a runway, and is directly under the flight path, resulting in aircraft on their final approach flying over the beach at altitudes of less than 100 feet above ground level.

Danger Sign

Link Location Gps -63.1202169

GPS Coordinates / 18.0389789,-63.1202169

Link Location Gps / Gps Link -63.1203064 / Gps Link -63.120206 / Gps Link -63.1201912

Gps Coordinates / 18.0394492,-63.1203064 / 18.038782,-63.120206 / 18.0383835,-63.1201912

There is a danger of people standing on the beach being blown into the water because of the jet blast from aircraft taking off from runway 10. The local government warns that closely approaching and departing aircraft can "result in serious injury and/or death". An additional fence has been added recently behind runway 10, in order to prevent people from hanging onto the main fence surrounding the runway to experience being blasted by the jet flow.

Link Location Gps -63.1202759

GPS Coordinates / 18.039344,-63.1202759

The beach itself is white sand and has little to no vegetation because of jet blast erosion. The Caravanserai Resort, the Sunset Bar and other restaurants/night clubs such as Bamboo Bernies and Bliss are located nearby. The beach is popular with windsurfers and skimboarders because of occasional large waves.

Link Location Gps -63.1202774

GPS Coordinates / 18.0391674,-63.1202774

If you don't believe this beach is dangerous after everything you've seen then consider the deadly carbon monoxide carbon floating all around this beach 24/7 everyone is inhaling, getting darted by an old plane would be the last of my worries. Your best and "safer" watching this beach from the comfort of your computer.