Video claiming to show futile attempts to resuscitate a Kiwi women fatally knocked over by a jet engine blast in the Caribbean has been uploaded to Facebook.
In the two-minute clip, which Newshub has decided not to show, men take turns trying to revive the 57-year-old, without success.
The Kiwi tourist was holding onto a fence at Maho Beach, next to Princess Juliana Airport on the island of Sint Maarten, local police said in a statement yesterday. She was " blown away by the jet blast and was seriously injured", and later died.
Planes fly over the beach at an extremely low altitude, and there are several signs along the fence warning people to stay away or risk "extreme bodily harm or death".
Response to the video was mixed. Many criticised the person filming the incident, and the uploader.
"The fella who tape this... how would you feel if that was your sister or mother and somebody is taping her," one person asked.
"You're such a disrespectful idiot for recording this!" said another.
"I am shocked this is allowed on fb but a nipple will get u blocked for 30 days," a third person wrote.
But others said she shouldn't have been standing by the fence.
"Omg well well that when they don't listen and read and move away," wrote one person.
"It's news and you have a choice not to look," said another.
Despite the obvious risks, it's believed to be the first time someone has been killed by a jet engine blast on Maho Beach. A History Channel documentary once named it the fourth-most dangerous airport in the world.
Her family are being given consular assistance. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the High Commission in Barbados is in contact with the woman's next of kin.
The video was removed soon after Newshub found it. It's not clear if the uploader removed it, or it was taken down by Facebook.
Newshub.
