Maho Beach is a beach on the Dutch side of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, in the territory of 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. 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 (30 m) feet above ground level. This makes the beach a popular location for photographers and video makers who intend to capture the aircraft approaching the airport.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. On 12 July 2017, as Caribbean Airlines Flight 457 was taking off from the airport, a 57-year-old woman from New Zealand was killed by jet blast. The woman was holding on to a fence at the end of the runway when the wind blew her away, causing her head to smash into concrete.

The beach itself is white sand and has little to no vegetation because of jet blast erosion.

Date: september 12, 2018
In port that day: Carnival Sunshine, Carnival Ecstasy and Harmony of the Seas

Princess Juliana International Airport, SXM
Prinses Juliana Luchthaven
VZ-LIH - liat.com - ATR 72-600
PJ-WIP - wia air
N247DH - ameriflight
VP-LNB - viairlink
St. Martin - Sint Maarten - St. Maarten - Saint Martin