Mark this one as another honoree for this year’s Darwin Awards. A tourist was killed by jet blast from an airliner at Maho Beach in St. Maarten. Located next to Princess Juliana Airport, the beach is a tourism spot known for approaching low-flying jet aircraft. The 57-year-old woman was “knocked off her feet by a plane’s powerful wake” according to a police report and sustained injuries to her head. She and a group of tourists were standing near a fence separating the runway and beach with warning signs. Maybe this is why we can’t have nice things — I guess?


Visitors have been tossed by planes’ jet blast before, but this marks the first fatality of its kind at the site.

In 2012, a beachgoer was blown face-first into a low wall behind her while trying to withstand a jet engine’s back wash.

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