@@TheHikingHoosier well enlighten us. Just don't issue a rebuttal with no explanation why..... explain the physics. Loose items wouldn't become a projectile why........
As a pilot who has landed and departed from this airport a handful of times, I can see how the idea of this seems fun, however I think a lot of people seriously misunderstand how powerful jet blast is. On a heavy aircraft, these engines are responsible for getting 300 tons of metal into the air... And they do the job well. If you're going to do this, bring a helmet or something to throw on while it happens, and then when it's over just take it back off or something.
I am from the island island of saint martin and we literally don't do that. When we want to see the departure and arrival watch it from the side. Plus there are multiple warnings telling people to not be behind the jet blast .
@@trevorwilson5496 he probably is… It’s hilarious how many people doubt other people these days. Do you not think pilots watch plane videos on RU-vid? I’m a pilot as well… You probably won’t believe me though, so whatever.
A flight simulator is only that; a *simulator* it doesn't prepare you for the aftermath of such tragedies. There needs to be a crack down on viewing within a lethal (or possibly lethal) range.
So sad and preventable. She smashed her head on the curb and later died from head trauma at the hospital according to news reports. Don't do this folks- should go without saying it's very dangerous getting blasted into the ocean by 100+ mph winds from jetliners capable of blowing cars and buses away.
@@switch12345678 Billions of people drive cars, fly in planes etc regularly, if people were doing dumb stuff like standing behind jets all the time there'd be massive numbers of deaths. As it is, people reportedly get injured pretty often, it also seems a safe bet that numerous less significant injuries go unreported. eg: from a news article "a number of serious injuries have been reported, including two tourists in 2012 who suffered a broken leg and a head injury." And this is despite it being a relatively small number of people at a single airport.
@@DoubleMonoLR The enormous number of deaths is also due to "reasonable" travel worldwide by cars and planes with billions of people. It depends on the ratio, but that's not statistically meaningful here.
As an airline mechanic of 25+ years and a former Marine helicopter crew chief, I am beyond baffled by this ridiculously dangerous activity. Even the smallest of projectiles can be fatal in the wake of a jet engine, especially a high bypass design. (moves an incredibly large amount of air with even greater velocity)
Actually, I think the low bypass engines on the DC9 are worse (better). Probably because they are closer together at the tail with a more concentrated 'jet' . It seems too that the the pilots hold the brakes a little longer while the engines spool to full thrust. Just my observation from being there. The 747 having its engines spread out so far apart from each other was less jet blast than directly behind the DC9. YOLO.
Yeah, being directly behind a DC-9, MD-88, or MD-90 will get a more concentrated flow. Easier to side step though, because it is so concentrated. A 47's path is harder to side step, for this reason but both can hurt you.@@pchan6111
@@dugebuwembo The fence is too secure the AOA, (air operations area) only. I'm sure when it was installed, decades ago, they never took into account that people would stand right next to it.
As an unemployable slacker that has never been on an island OR piloted a plane, I can tell you with the utmost confidence that this activity is really, REALLY stoopid
Having worked refueling planes I can attest Jet Blast is not something to play games with. Why/how these people are allowed to be there is beyond reason
The reason that it is beyond is the United States government. This is one of those backwater tourist countries and they don't care what they do as long as they get the money to come in and this one dead person isn't going to bother him a bit they'll keep doing this because they're famous for it and they'll keep pulling in the money and once in a while they'll kill.
@@tyrone6481nah the beach is still there. It comes and goes depending on the time of year. Also they moved up the point where aircraft line up so they can’t depart from that close to the fence anymore.
further back on the beach it is not so dangerous - although you still can be hit by a flying stone or other persons or their stuff... - but she was as close as she could get (the fence) and she had hard asphalt behind her with a concrete curb. Totally brainless.
@@Edi_JYou'd have to be really far back in order for it to not be dangerous. The fact that flying rocks and debris can hit you at extremely high speeds is the reason it's still pretty dangerous even just a down that beach. They were way too close
@@Roddy556 Planes before takeoff are moving and turning, changing thrust level, so any "safe spot" can suddenly become not so safe. Plus, you still have to remember about the random flying stuff (which depends only on your cover and on the distance to the jet).
I visited St. Maarten years ago & watched the 747 take off. From a reasonable distance on the side & out of the blast zone. Even then, the tiny bits of sand still hit me & stung. And I wasn't anywhere near or behind the engines.
at 113 114 she is next to guy blue shirt red shorts. she has a green bag over her shoulder. at 115/116 she is flying through the air and hits the curb with her head. you even see the guy sprint over to her at 117. At 125 you can see her laying there and the guy who ran over to help her. slow down the video to .25 speed set it to max rez and zoom in it is super easy to see.
@@amck72 Nope...WRONG toenail breath. She was _definitely_ sent flying from the intense blast caused by those 2 massive turbine jet engines. Now, maybe you should make better use of your time & go looking for that telescoping red & white striped cane that you seem to have lost. ~DERP!!
I wouldn't mind the smell, but the strong blast is what will suck. That's what kills you. These engines are what make this 100+ ton aircraft fly at over 500MPH. If it can make something that heavy move that fast, imagine how hard it'll move a 150lb person.
I can understand the smell and heat. I also can understand why a few would not realize the force needed to get that plane to move. What I don't understand is why no one that was smart didn't warn them to move
Please note, Midway planes have gone over the end of the runway once or twice. A kid got killed in the back of his parent's car once. Midway isn't a joke.
As an experienced flyer, most civilians don’t understand how powerful jet blast is. 200 mph winds from 4 jet engines 25 yards away is incredibly dangerous. Wake turbulence will float you like a feather. Many folks have suffered permanent hearing damage as the noise reaches about 140 decibels. To be clear, The damage done by loud noise depends mainly on how loud it is and on the length of exposure. The frequency or pitch can also have some effect, since high-pitched sounds are more damaging than low-pitched sounds. Basically folks, stay away from our jet blasts when we take off. Thank you. 👨✈️
Remember 140db isnt loud without saying frequency Alot of audio cars do 150+ and no issue mine does and i can still hear What kills is the SUPERRRRR high pitched sound @140db that hurts
My ex husband thought this would be great to experience so many years ago we did this. He was right up on the fence while I crouched down behind a cement barrier. I thought it was so stupid and would NEVER do it again
RIP Gayleen McEwan from New Zealand - 2017 Daily Mirror "Holidaymaker killed by plane's jet blast in "freak accident" at popular Caribbean beach was mum-of-three hotel owner"
@@KeyserSoze5421 Actually, the world would be a better place with less coddling of stupidity and more accountability. Stop giving stupidity a pass you absolute melt (whatever that means)
At this point I don’t understand why the authorities don’t just seal off the entire area with high fences and other deterrents. They shouldn’t have to, but this incident and others like it show that yet again people have to be protected from their own stupidity.
Beacon Hill Rd is a major road to the other side of the airport, it cannot be closed off. I think the best solution would be to replace the chain-link fence with something solid that cannot be grabbed onto and held. That would do much to take the thrill away. I would also replace (if I were king) the concrete barrier on the beach with a fence to keep people from approaching the road (and the airport perimeter). The narrow strip would be controlled by traffic signals and gates that would stop traffic (motor and pedestrian) when planes are scheduled to take off.
I'm surprised there isn't a jet blast deflector, they're fairly common in the US where runways are close to roads or pedestrian walkways (I believe they're even used to reduce noise pollution, like at the Hollywood Burbank Airport).
It's called evolution and humans are messing it up taking things away that thousands of people have enjoyed for one stupid persons choices. There are signs there warning of the dangers.
@@jaycee330 there are many more airfields with roads crossing behind them. Almost all of them have traffic lights which turn to red when a plane lands or departs. Police is there to make sure everybody abides the lights. It is not so difficult, it is just a matter of willing to make the effort.
I'm not a pilot but I do understand physics. The weight of a plane is hundreds of tons. that means you need that amount of force to push it but you need even more of it to get it airborn on just a minute or two. I would never stand behind something like that. 😢
You need _far less_ than 100 tons of force to move a 100 ton airplane. A passenger jet typically has one lb of thrust to four lbs of airplane, and that thrust ratio gets worse as it climbs.
I was in the Navy and on ships we had something called a JBD (jet blast deflector). Diving behind one of those will save ur life! I never had the opportunity to be THAT close to a jet blast
It is. There is even a notice. Stop lights for cars too. The bar on the beach even serves free drinks if you are topless. It is a spectating area and a thrill.
As a jet engine builder that has probably literally built this engine, this is the absolute stupidest thing you can do. Look up FOD, if you are looking for a thrill, go on a roller coaster, don’t stand behind an engine that can and has taken so many lives.
After growing up in Miami and elsewhere in Florida with hurricanes and thinking it safe, with my sister, to go outside when it seemed winds were low, I can say we were taught a lesson quickly by hurricane winds. I don't know the level comparison to a jet (I hear it a lot in news reports to warn ppl), but it's just not worth it. A few seconds, literally, of "fun" is worth it and fyi that sand blasted at you will peel your skin!
14 year old girl here. Went to St Marten two years ago, scariest experience of my life. No one tells you just how strong the sand is. I have permanent scratches on my eye because the sand flew into my eye socket so fast and so quick that it literally scratched it like sandpaper. Do not go here. Seems fun, but at what cost.
I've worked at an airport before, grounds maintenance. In orientation they said STAY CLEAR OF THE AIRPLANE! Then showed us a video of a firetruck getting blown over and tumbling. So, RESPECT THE AIRPLANE!
The title isn't clickbait. It was a 57 year old individual from New Zealand. Various national/international news agencies covered it in detail. Easy to verify given the OP's inclusion of the month and year the incident occurred.
@@100above7she wasn’t trying to win. This is akin to doing thrill sports where one wrong choice can lead to death. Many people do this and get inured and many don’t, no one is trying to “win” against the jet, it’s just a thrill and adventure that people want to take on just like other dangerous activities and sports so has nothing to do wit Darwin Award but thanks for playing anyways. SMH
While in Grad School (1983), I delivered food from a deli, part time. At Albany NY airport, I was delivering to a large group of US Marines, in a restricted, office-like part of the airport. We saw a large jet taxiing by, at some distance, and slowly turning away from us. A few moments later we heard the engines rev up, then the building started to shake. Followed by the sound of breaking window glass. Then a nearby interior door blew in, off its hinges ! By that time, Every Marine - in Perfect Unison - had Dropped to the Floor ! I followed suit. Never knew if the pilot got "smoked" for that. But it impressed upon me the sheer power of jet engines.
I just don't get it. I stayed at Maho Bay back + 2000 and that Landing was the most precarious one I've ever gone through and I can't even tell you how many dozens and dozens of flight I've been on. This was before people thought being there and getting sandblasted was fun.
@@huzcer I understand that, but this video does not show anyone being knocked over and hitting their head before showing the shore, nor does it show any woman laying on the ground when the camera pans back to face the runway. There appears to some man laying in the sand, freeze frame 1:25, was that the woman which I mistakened for a man? There's no yellow shirt and it doesn't look like a woman. I don't see anything that resembles a woman in yellow laying near the path and curbs between the fence and beach
@@alvexok5523 watch 1:15 to 1:17 right side of frame just past middle. Woman knocked down onto the concrete and stops at kerb so she hit that. She's partially obscured by people in the foreground but you can see if you look closer
@@alvexok5523it does, a woman next to the fence, behind the black guy in the red shorts. She runs across the street, then falls, hitting her head on the curb.
As a private pilot, nothing is more dangerous than standing just behind a jetliner about to take off. Those powerful engines will turn any small pebbles into deadly bullets.
People seem to fall into two categories; the ones who run away from a danger zone and the ones who rush into a danger zone. Thankfully I'm in the former category.
Theres space for both types. But without the latter, we would probably still be scrabbling around in the dirt in mesopotamia. Not that that's a bad thing, progress isn't always necessary.
Yes the woman was from Blenheim New Zealand. That's 3 hours north of where I live and this was on the news. A tragedy. You can see her being blown into the low wall at great force at 1.15 into the video.
If the person filming this had held the camera sideways which is "Landscape" mode we would be able to see so much more horizontally. Holding a camera recording this way you develop a "muscle memory" and it becomes easy to do.
People are dumb and they don't listen to or care about good advice anymore. They do it wrong on purpose to defy their elders including their own parents. It's not cool to be normal but it is cool to be a total backwards idiot. Telling them does literally no good. It has the opposite effect. Sorry but that's just how it is.
I worked on the dangerous flight deck of an aircraft carrier in the Navy. Why would anyone subject themselves to deafening noise and flying debris for amusement?
Wow you can see the woman with the Yellow Shirt and White Shorts running but fell hard to the ground. She seem like she was knocked down to her death or unconscious. She just stopped moving 😔
I never agreed with pedestrians being this close to the runway. It seems like a cramped space and a big tourist destination but still… Hopefully this hasn’t happened again.
Then you aren't paying attention. By 1:30 you've missed the entire thing. At 1:13 she's second from the left, just to the right of the guy in the blue shirt/red shorts. She has on a white hat, yellow top, white bottoms and has a blue bag over her shoulder. At 1:15 she's falling face first just to the left of the guy in the grey shorts with the yellow stripe. At 1:16 she does a header into the curb just left of the big dude in the black shirt. The woman died. It was national news. 10 seconds on google would confirm that.
I work at an airport. And we're not even allowed to drive vehicles including bagging carts with over 2 tons worth of baggage behind air crafts if the engines are spoolled down because it can flip the cart. If jet blast can flip a car your >250 lb ass is going flying.
Now I'm not a jet pilot or an expert on flight engines or a plane enthusiast or even a human being for that matter, but even I know that several people use airplanes as a mode of transportation to and from specific places each year.
As a current ramp agent, I have been almost knocked off my feet by an aircraft almost 200 feet away from me taxiing out on break away thrust (just enough to get moving, not a lot) while waiting to push another flight out. I was not even in the direct path of the jet blast. Anyone that thinks this is fun is plain stupid, especially on the much softer and looser sand that is not going to give very much in the way of a solid place to stand, even holding onto the fence, people are expecting themselves to be able to hold on while 24000+ lbs of thrust pushing air back at 200+ mph beat the living daylights out of them. Do NOT do this. Stand well clear of the blast, or at least stay low to the ground where you are less likely to take a life threatening tumble.
@@S1mp1l0tGreetings, fellow ramper from across the pond! I’m curious how you managed to get blasted off your feet? It’s just that we have very strict positioning rules at the airport where I work at. In the two years I’ve worked there I’ve never been knocked off my feet and neither have any of my colleagues. I don’t know of any incidents either. And to be honest that would count as a serious incident here. But I have to agree with your message. I’ve been at safe distances behind taxiing 737, A320, 787 and A330 aircraft enough to respect the power of jetblast! I can be two 737 lengths behind one and physically feel the heat and force against me. There’s no way I’d get as close as that woman did on a takeoff roll.
@@mikoto7693 I have never been blown off my feet, just very close to it. I keep about 300ft/90m distance when I'm walking in the alley between concourses, but sometimes we get just the right crosswind that the jetblast is amplified and certainly tries to knock us off our feet. The only other time that I've gotten close, I was standing within the apron on my gate ready to wing walk a departure as another aircraft was also leaving the alleyway. Unfortunately, again, the wind played a role and pushed the blast to the side and right at me.
I'm a ramp agent. We are told specifically to NEVER EVER stand behind a plane while the engines are running. A jet blast from a plane can kill you. Don't ever do this please.
I am not standing behind two engines that has enough raw power to lift a plane, plus passengers, plus luggage off the ground and able to fly over 500mph.😮
Imagine paying big money to go to a beach far away but instead go to the fence of the airport so you can get thrown around and if you're lucky blown into the water in your sandy clothes. Fun..
@@dimitristsekeris1821 that's the literal definition of a coincidence. Two events coinciding. One event was the camera recording. The other event was the woman being knocked over. I hope this helps.
@@gr6e Help in what? I know what coincidence means. Maybe you should learn better when it is used. It is used in circumastances where two UNRELATED events coincide. Tourists filming BECAUSE the plane is taking off is not a coincidence.
I was a navy ABE onboard USS Forrestal from 1986-1990, waste catapults. Most people are ignorant as to how powerful a jet blast is until you find yourself behind one. That must have been terrifying for every on looker.
More to the point how the heck are the public allowed to stand so close to a dangerous zone like this anyhow!! I mean WTF!! Really 🤔🤔😳the mind boggles. Wow 🤦♂️😳🤨
It's a public road. It's the only one accessing the community on the back side of the airport. In case you didn't notice, they're up against the ocean - there isn't anyplace else to put the road. This is Darwinian selection in action.
"A New Zealand woman died Wednesday after being hit with an airplane’s jet blast at a Caribbean beach known for its close-up views of aircraft arriving and departing a nearby airport, police said. The 57-year-old tourist Gayleen McEwan was killed by the blast as a jetliner took off at Princess Juliana International Airport on Sint Maarten, a seaside airport in the Caribbean." RIP
I can't see anything like that in this video, and when the camera pans back to the fence after showing the shore, I still can't see anything that resembles what is saying happened.
@@alvexok5523 If you look again at around 1:13, a woman in yellow shirt with a green tote is blasted onto the ground and flung against the curb, but that moment when she hits the curb is hidden by the big guy.
That's terrible. I feel awful for her friend or husband or whoever it was that was with her and clearly noticed her against the concrete curb and was trying to retrieve her.
A real tragedy. People don’t realize when you step out of places like the US and the UK, other countries don’t have the same safety regulation standards. In other countries, you have to use your common sense and not expect places to be safe, just because the public has access.
I can't blame the pilots for the number of deaths caused by the stupidity of these beachgoers. The airport clearly has warning signs posted on the fences to alert people of landing and departing aircraft. These airplanes have really powerful engines that are much more stronger than the winds of a category 5 hurricane, but yet, they still choose to get close to the fences and to the runways. They still haven't learned a lesson from the New Zealand woman who was killed by an aircraft jet engine blast at this beach, near the airport. Definitely not the pilot's fault.
I think people trigger this to be a fun even, so its a big group-safety feeling. They should put more information about this, even tough you have a responsibility us humans do sometime put trust in each other alot.
This is 100% a design issue. People can say it’s the people’s fault but jetblast is really unexpectedly powerful and jets taking off is always a spectacle. People will always want to sample and watch up close because you don’t get that opportunity often. This is a major fail on the municipality and the architects/engineeres/development team involved with the project. It’s up to them to keep the public safe from reasonable human actions which this definitely covers.
I remember as a kid in the 80's, about 7 or 8, going to this beach. Was playing with some of the other tourist kids and local kids on the beach, and one of the local kids said oh come on a planes landing. We go running over, and it scared the crap out of me how low those planes are when they land/take off. One of the kids threw up from the fumes. That doesn't look like the same area as on the beach, but it may be higher up off the beach? I don't recall a road being right there. As an adult, I worked at an airport. There's a reason they don't go full blast with the engines till they're out on the runway. Jet blast is such a serious thing, we had yearly classes on it as part of safety. Front can suck ya in, back can blow you away. Not to mention the noise, I have hearing loss from working there. I'm really surprised they don't have that area blocked off from the public, because stupid people are always trying to win stupid prizes.
I remember landing in princess Julianna international, we had to descend in a corkscrew landing. I havent been since 2003 though. Anyone who goes has to go to Lee's roadside grille. They have a boat crew that goes out several times a day to fish. Red snapper and giant lobster are most popular and while availability of things on the menu can be spotty, you are guaranteed that what you order was swimming an hour ago at the most😊
Really? You're talking about food on a menu at some restaurant in the comment section of a video where a woman dies... How sick man. Come on, have some dignity.
@@stargazer7644 whatever it is called we flew in a great big circle while descending until we landed. I believe that it had something to do with airspace maybe. Im not sure, i havent been in over 20 years.
@@teachersamtravels4028 that would be a funny thing to talk "coddleswop" about. Lying about something as insignificant as some landing pattern at some 2 bit 3rd world airport. Did ypu know that the runway is a tourist attraction? Or do you think that is bs as well?
The airport should do a survey to see if there’s enough room the install a thrust deflector. If one could be installed everyone on the beach won’t have to run away to avoid being hit by the sand blast.
On the 1:15 you can see a girl with yellow shirt, white shorts and some handbag , she is hanging on the fence all the time. When engine's accelerate she was blown away....She is behind the guy with blue shirt and red shorts...
@@Q_B.. NOT TRUE. Look at the 1:25 mark. The plane's blast has subsided and she is STILL in frame and NOT blown away as you claim. This title is nothing more than Clickbait.
@@ronsampson4093 You are misleading girl with white shirt and yellow pants with girl in yellow shirt and white shorts they both are in the frame but first one ( like you said ) is all the time on the fence. Idk man but I can even see that she has dark green handbag and it's clearly visible when she hits concrete...
they should place a barrier to deflect the jet blast upwards, or find a way to reclaim land and make the runway and the beach a longer distance apart, its very dangerous but there are thrill-seekers in our world
Was there this past February again, they have widened the area so you cannot get as close up anymore. They have put measures in place, but still - common sense is the #1 rule here at this beach. If someone was too close, someone would tell them to move back. It seems much more safe now.
57 mother of 3. NZ millionaire. You can see her with the green purse hit that curb hard. I was at this island this year but didn’t bother to see this. I have 4 kids. Way too dangerous. RIP
At the time, I downloaded a video where we saw someone give her a heart massage. Her eyes are wide open, she has no reaction. It seems obvious that she died instantly.
I find this hysterical. Would someone not think this is both life threatening and moronic at the same time? Like jumping from a cliff not knowing what fatal impact is. Or what you could possible hit on the way down or once you sunk to the bottom. F*** around and find out I guess. Fatal impact: resulting in or capable of causing death. a fatal accident. 2 bringing ruin; disastrous. 3 decisively important; fateful
She died from being thrown onto the ground/into the kerb, that's obviously a pretty real danger. Others have broken bones, etc. I wouldn't imagine anyone is keeping their eyes open, but the whole stupid trend of doing this is beyond ridiculous anyway. It's quite selfish too, the pilots shouldn't have to worry about people behind them. The likely also felt awful finding out someone died, even though it's not their fault. Never mind the local hospitals having to treat totally unnecessary injuries.
It’s like a tornado or hurricane. The wind presents a danger itself as shown in this video but also the blast can carry a piece of debris, like an umbrella for example, and slam it into you at 300 mph. Also all your belongings on the beach will get probably destroyed by the plane’s blast and blown into the water probably.
As a aviation enthusiast... Never get behind a jet blast...engines work at highest operative temp and revs during take off, meaning most of catastrophic episodes ocur during that phase...
At 1:13 she is mostly hidden behind the guy with the red shorts and blue shirt. She is just peeking out around his right side. White shorts, yellow shirt, blue/green bag, white hat. She disappears off the left side at 1:14 hanging on the fence and reappears at 1:15 now being blown across the road with her hat gone. She starts to fall behind the guy with the grey, yellow and black shorts on. She's behind the big dude with the black shirt on when she does a header into the curb. You can just see the back of her head and dark hair sticking up over the curb as black shirt gets blown out of the way. Put playback speed to 25%.
