ST. MAARTEN — Vacationers flock to St. Maarten’s Maho Beach as much to see huge aircraft flying overhead as for surf and sand. Yesterday tragedy struck when a 57-year old tourist visiting Maho Beach was ****** when she was blown backwards by the ***** of a *** engine and knocked with such force into a concrete block that she later **** from head ********.

Located right next to Princess Juliana International Airport, Maho Beach is well-known for surreal scenes of sunbathers lounging on the sand as jumbo *** aircraft get set for landings just above the shoreline.

Yesterday’s ******** happened around 6 p.m. as the woman, visiting from New Zealand, stood by the fence that separates the beach from the runway. Large planes have to give their *** engines full gas so they can get up to speed and get off the ground from the airport’s short runway. Signs on the fence warn that these *** ****** are strong enough to knock people over.