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Maho Beach is a beach situated in St Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles, on the dutch south side of the island. The local Princess Juliana International Airport is situated adjacent to the beach. Due to the fact that aircraft (including large passenger airliners such as Boeing 747s) fly very close over the beach it is very popular with plane spotters. The beach experiences semi-large waves which makes it also popular with windsurfers. The local government warns that becoming too near of departing and arriving aircraft can "result in serious injury or death." It is one of the only places in the world today where you can view aircraft in their flightpath virtually just outside the end of the runway. The beach itself is white sand and has little vegetation because of the low flightpath. There is a bar nearby and resorts.
Sign warning passers-by about the dangers of jet blast.
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