St. Maarten plane landings

**Flagg** · 07-11-2008, 05:42 AM

Apparantly this type of landing is a regular phenomena in St. Maartens. Personally I think id shit my pants if I was in that red car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAfQwDizpRo

**firmechicano831** · 07-11-2008, 10:08 AM

thats crazy.

**facile** · 07-11-2008, 10:46 AM

If it looked as if the plane was going to crash wear I was standing, I wouldn't stand there and film??

**Tesla** · 07-11-2008, 02:32 PM

This one might be even scarier....at least for the passengers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_z5HtME9n8

**domeyeahaigh** · 07-11-2008, 02:37 PM

that one sucked compared to the first one

**kaberle_15** · 07-11-2008, 09:01 PM

I've been there twice and thats what happens, it's really scary when you are on the beach watching it fly right over your head.

**warchild** · 07-11-2008, 09:15 PM

looks like a accident waiting to happen

**markdessler1** · 09-08-2008, 03:48 AM

The landing was the most terrifying of my life, and i second warchild's comment....definitely an accident waiting to happen.... i've been on a few scary flights (including a decompression)...but this one definitely freaked me out

PT · 09-08-2008, 03:54 AM

alot of little islands are like that. even when i was landing in purto rico it was bad. i was on the left side of the plane and we were landing and as i looked out my window all i could see was ocean and thought we were landing on water

**beefjr22** · 09-08-2008, 01:52 PM

Ive been there a few times as well, in that exact spot. Its pretty crazy to see in person but it happens all day long so i guess they got it under control

**Skully44420** · 09-08-2008, 05:54 PM

damn this thread LOL. watching all the videos on youtube now...maybe i will take a train to New York

those landings are fukin crazy though

**Doc M** · 09-09-2008, 10:57 AM

That shit is scary! I've been on two terrible flights in my life and both times I honestly thought it was the end.

First one I was flying into Bogota, Columbia in a severe thunderstorm. We were about 5 minutes out from the runway when the captain came on and said everyone should tighten up there seat belts and that the landing was going to be bumpy. About 30 seconds later the plane was dropping altitude, people were screaming and crying, the bins were all opening and luggage was flying out and then the damn oxygen masks deployed. Then the stewardesses were screaming. I knew when they started screaming that things were bad, really bad. I had sweat pouring down my face and back. It seriously scared the shit out of me.

Secodn time I was coming into Quito, Ecuador in the middle of the night. The runway in Quito is too short so they have to hit it perfect. The downside is the the runway is in a depression in between the Andes mountains and at the end of the runway it drops off about 150 feet. It's just the worst place to put a runway. On top of all that we were in another damn thunderstorm. The pilot made two attempts at landing, aborting one when we were literally wheels down on the runway. It was pitch black out and I kept thinking we were gonna slam into the mountains. People were seriously paralyzed with fear. We finally got diverted to another airport somewhere in Columbia and flew in the next day.

Short of crashing, I can't imagine being more scared!!

Doc M