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   From: darwin-daily@cnn.com   
      
   A 57-year-old tourist has died after she stood too close to an   
   airport’s runway in the Caribbean and the engine of a large jet   
   blew her into the ground.   
      
   The New Zealand national was trying to hold on to a fence   
   bordering the Princess Juliana International Airport in St.   
   Martin on Wednesday when she was thrown backward, causing her to   
   hit her head on the concrete ground, police said in a release.   
      
   The woman, who has not been identified, was taken to a hospital   
   where she died from her injuries, police said.   
      
   The airport is famous for its planes’ startlingly close   
   proximity to pedestrians, who have been seen lying on the beach   
   beneath low-flying planes.   
      
   Despite authorities cautioning about the potential danger, a   
   number of videos posted on YouTube show thrill-seekers standing   
   close to the runway so that they can experience the powerful   
   blast of the planes’ engines.   
      
   One video uploaded in 2012 shows a woman being thrown headfirst   
   into a concrete barrier after losing her grasp of a chain-link   
   fence.   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV28AL0k1kY   
      
   “The airport authorities and other local authorities have taken   
   all necessary measures such as the placing of signs to warn the   
   general public not to stand in the path of the jet blast of a   
   departing aircraft because of the danger involved,” police said   
   in a statement. “Police patrols on a daily basis visit that area   
   during the busy hours to warn persons to stay away from that   
   area during take off jet aircraft’s.”   
      
   St. Martin tourist director Rolando Brison told the New Zealand   
   Herald he met with the victim’s family.   
      
   “While they recognised that what they did was wrong, through the   
   clearly visible danger signs, they regret that risk they took   
   turned out in the worst possible way,” he told the Herald.   
      
   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jet-engine-blast-kills-   
   tourist_us_5967bc3de4b01741862617c5?8s   
      
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