View Full Version : Lowest SXM landing I've ever seen
flyboy 28
2007-06-25, 12:12 PM
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Trouser-browning for sure!
NIKV69
2007-06-25, 01:09 PM
Awesome video, thought he had that fence for sure. Windy too.
Mellyrose
2007-06-25, 01:15 PM
Wow, that's insane!
emshighway
2007-06-25, 01:38 PM
This is insane!!!
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j12/emshighway/SMXLanding-1.jpg
hiss srq
2007-06-25, 01:45 PM
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
2007-06-25, 01:54 PM
This one?
http://starnesphoto.com/aviation/sxm06/KLM_PH-BFGsm.jpg
hiss srq
2007-06-25, 01:56 PM
Ja Ja Ja!!!!!
adam613
2007-06-25, 03:12 PM
Has anyone ever actually clipped the fence at SXM? Any damage beyond burst tires?
hiss srq
2007-06-25, 10:31 PM
an AF 742 did once.
alexg32
2007-06-26, 01:45 AM
Is the runway so short that they need to cut it that close?
hiss srq
2007-06-26, 03:06 AM
Nope it is just over seven grand. Plenty runway as long as it is uncontaminated.
G-BOAD
2007-06-26, 09:05 AM
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/mateu21/KLMSXMlowestlanding.jpg
My photo
sorry for the really crappy quality
hiss srq
2007-06-26, 11:57 AM
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
2007-06-26, 08:44 PM
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
2007-06-26, 09:08 PM
That's insane!
DHG750R
2007-06-29, 12:28 AM
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
2007-06-29, 12:54 PM
it is just over seven grand
Still not very long. It's like having 744's land at LGA.
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