WATCH: Low, Low, Low Landing In St. Maarten

Image: PHOTO: Reach out and touch something at Maho Beach, St. Maarten. Courtesy Flickr/Takashi Ota)

by Rich Thomaselli
Last updated: 9:30 AM ET, Tue March 7, 2017

What was that old television commercial jingle? "Reach out, reach out and touch someone."

It's like that every day at Princess Juliana International Airport in St. Maarten, where planes landing at the airport come in from the ocean and right over Maho Beach's sunbathers-so low it seems like you can reach out, reach out and touch those aircraft.

On Feb. 22, you almost could.

A tourist shot this spectacular video of an American Airlines Flight 518 from Philadelphia approaching famous Runway 10 at Princess Juliana. The aircraft, an Airbus-319, descended as usual but the tourist shooting the video noticed the plane looked a bit lower than usual than what they had seen all day of flights approaching the runway.

Take look for yourself:

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Editor Associate Writer true 9281 14744 Rich Thomaselli has written for TravelPulse since 2014 and has been a professional journalist for nearly 40 years. His work has appeared in USA Today, the New York Times and New York Yankees publications. He is an 11-time writ