The scary part is that this is a normal landing for this place...woof, wouldn't want to be anywhere near this one... Sometimes that little fence at the far right gets nailed by landing gear and dragged down the runway Pretty scary, eh?
i seriously doubt thats a real picture, if that really was the path the plane has to take to lands those people and the cars on the beach wouldnt be allowed to be there because of certain laws. Either that pilot is really stupid or the picture is fake. It looks fake anyway.
I saw something like that on AFV (Americas Funniest Home Videos) where everyone's towels and bags were flying away because of a plane taking off. I'd hate to live around there...
The picture is definitely real. The island is part of the Netherlands Antilles in the Caribbean...it's called Saint Maarten (SXM). The only flat part on the entire island is just barely long enough for a runway, and as a result there's this beach under the approach (the only usable one, since there's mountains on the other end). Cause of this, everything MUST land over that beach, and believe it or not, that's a normal approach. They close that road and everything when something takes off, cause the jet blast could actually launch a car (!) out to sea... Way more here... I've gotta go there some day...just for the pure hell of it...
http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=5514...Q%3D&static=yes one of my friends who's obsessed with airplanes showed me that pic the other day...pretty freaky. You'd think the noise from a jet would make you go deaf after awhile
the plane looks to me like its taking off rather than landing yeh i thought it was fake cuz i noticed that no one was looking or there was no shadows