boroughloch (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

wow

KellyDriz (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Actually, it does blow people away. I was there this summer and my family and I got picked up and tumbled head over heels into the water. A painful, yet rare experience.

Bishkes (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

no... the engines are not idle while landing... especialy not so shortly before landing!!! this is due to security restrictions as a pilot has always to be ready to abort landing and restart still in the air in case of emergency... that would be a hard task without runnin engines... so they are on up to almost 40%!!! i guess people are not blown away cuz the plane still is too high when it passes them... and when it gets on the attitude of the people it's alread like 500m away... that's enough

soxeyer (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

good pilot

yomamasapeach (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

It must be a long flight from nederlands to st martin!

willhaytch (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

oh yea. obvious... silly me

Darcshadow5 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

because on landing the engines are idle when they go over the beach so the thrust is minimal, it wouldv'e been windy but nothing to blow anyone away

msteelman (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i know i dont get it lol small little islands and big ass jets don't really seem to mix

yomamasapeach (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

But that still does not explane the canary islands?

dawkinsdude2019 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

nope im almost positive