Lowest SXM landing I've ever seen

[flyboy 28]

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Trouser-browning for sure!

[NIKV69]

Awesome video, thought he had that fence for sure. Windy too.

[Mellyrose]

Wow, that's insane!

[emshighway]

This is insane!!!

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j12/emshighway/SMXLanding-1.jpg

[hiss srq]

That is the video that everyone has been talking about that exists from that epic photo I think Chris Starnes took from SXM where the airplane nearly clipped the fence and touched down just short of the threshold.

[Mellyrose]

This one?

http://starnesphoto.com/aviation/sxm06/KLM_PH-BFGsm.jpg

[hiss srq]

Ja Ja Ja!!!!!

[adam613]

Has anyone ever actually clipped the fence at SXM? Any damage beyond burst tires?

[hiss srq]

an AF 742 did once.

[alexg32]

Is the runway so short that they need to cut it that close?

[hiss srq]

Nope it is just over seven grand. Plenty runway as long as it is uncontaminated.

[G-BOAD]

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/mateu21/KLMSXMlowestlanding.jpg

My photo

sorry for the really crappy quality

[hiss srq]

As far as short runways go I have seen a DC-10 land on a runway that was something like 5 grand in lengtt. Below glideslope and a touchdown right at the hashes was done. It was a empty bird coming in to pick up a MAC at SRQ back in 2002 when I was a student.

[JetBlueAirwaysFan]

The video looked windy, so there had to have been a weather related explanation for such a low approach.
Wow! I though that plane had the fence for sure!

[wunaladreamin]

That's insane!

[DHG750R]

Is the runway so short that they need to cut it that close?

Im waiting for the day we send one of our birds there, the runway is just over 7000' in length which is our minimum runway length for operating..

[uplander]

it is just over seven grand

Still not very long. It's like having 744's land at LGA.