Whadya Think? Jet Blast Beach Is This Video Faked?

[CitationXDriver]

Clip of 747 taking off in St. Maarten, and it shows the jetblast blowing a bunch of people into the water. I know it may be possible with the runway position and all, but man, if its real, those people are idiots.

http://www.break.com/index/plane_blows_beach_away.html

 

[AerroMatt]

Cool video. Dunno if its faked or not, but I would not be surprised if it was for real.

 

[Tram]

I've seen a video where people stand behind heavies as they are taking off - they hang onto the chain link fence seperating the runway from the passerby's and it blows them horizontal..

 

[captainv]

apparently it's real. one of my systems instrusctors said he would hang out at the beach bar there (i think that's it at the top of the frame) and watch people try hang on to the fence. he said more than a few were blown into the water without touching the road or the sand...

 

[bubbers44]

They look like future Darwin Award material. The gene pool needs another correction.

 

[timeoff]

Wouldn't vans and trucks be tipped over traveling that road between the beach and airport?

 

[aucfi]

Wouldn't vans and trucks be tipped over traveling that road between the beach and airport?

I remember seeing a video where they have stop lights there that are airport controlled so that doesnt happen. I cant find the video now.

 

[dseagrav]

I believe it. I saw another video of a 747 doing this but with cars, and they had only the two inboard engines running. (At one point the TV show announcer said "FULL THRUST OF X THOUSAND POUNDS!" but they were showing 95% N1, so I don't think they even needed full power.) In any event, the cars was totally trashed, rolled at least 3-5 times each, and were thrown about one and a half airplane lengths away.

 

[Publishers]

Looked to me that they may have thought the water was a better place to be than sand blasted standing there and went in on there own.

 

[threegreen]

How is there any sand left on that beach?