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If you've seen my other posts in Landscape you'll know we had a holiday in Skiathos. One reason we went was so I could see these planes coming in over the marina. I've addd the last photo to let you see why some people get injured. Why didn't he wonder why everyone else had moved ?..Lol.
Infact I saw some people blown over as the jet engines were fired up, especially the Boeing 757's. As we left and were about 50 metre metres down the road I turned back to see a 757 about to take off and a Brit who had hired a quad bike stopped to chat to other Brits who had retreated 15 metres and a bit to the side by the water's edge having been blasted on the previous take-off. The blast cartwheeled the quad bike into the water along with a bottle of sun cream, two beer bottles and flip flops owned by the family the quad bike driver stopped to talk to.They hauled the quad bike out and then Dad went in to retrieve these other items to the great amusement of the group. It was all a great laugh for them. Fortunately, it's shallow at the edge but just across the way there's a large ship anchored. The week before a car was driven past,(it's a T junction there with the T being the perimeter fencing...I assume the driver either didn't see the plane or thought he'd 'make it' past. He didn't make it past and the blast put the car into the sea.The same happens at St. Martin in the Caribbean. I felt sorry for for one elderly gent who had a walking stick..he at least thought he was safe at 30-odd metres away down the road but he was in direct line of the jet engines..he was blown over and there were three pools of blood left on the roadway. There's a taverna on the road next to the sea about 75 metres from the T junction back towards town where everyone walks back to and I was told you can even feel the blast,albeit greatly weakened at that location,intact there's a red traffic light there to stop traffic when a plane is about to take off,whether it works or not i don;'t know but there isn't one either side of the T junction.The airport can take only three planes at one time.
The quad bike I mentioned was blown into the water where you see the two people standing.
Infact I saw some people blown over as the jet engines were fired up, especially the Boeing 757's. As we left and were about 50 metre metres down the road I turned back to see a 757 about to take off and a Brit who had hired a quad bike stopped to chat to other Brits who had retreated 15 metres and a bit to the side by the water's edge having been blasted on the previous take-off. The blast cartwheeled the quad bike into the water along with a bottle of sun cream, two beer bottles and flip flops owned by the family the quad bike driver stopped to talk to.They hauled the quad bike out and then Dad went in to retrieve these other items to the great amusement of the group. It was all a great laugh for them. Fortunately, it's shallow at the edge but just across the way there's a large ship anchored. The week before a car was driven past,(it's a T junction there with the T being the perimeter fencing...I assume the driver either didn't see the plane or thought he'd 'make it' past. He didn't make it past and the blast put the car into the sea.The same happens at St. Martin in the Caribbean. I felt sorry for for one elderly gent who had a walking stick..he at least thought he was safe at 30-odd metres away down the road but he was in direct line of the jet engines..he was blown over and there were three pools of blood left on the roadway. There's a taverna on the road next to the sea about 75 metres from the T junction back towards town where everyone walks back to and I was told you can even feel the blast,albeit greatly weakened at that location,intact there's a red traffic light there to stop traffic when a plane is about to take off,whether it works or not i don;'t know but there isn't one either side of the T junction.The airport can take only three planes at one time.
The quad bike I mentioned was blown into the water where you see the two people standing.
