A St. Maarten-based live streamer and ex-airplane mechanic says he’s never witnessed something as disruptive as the hard landing of a WestJet plane that shut down the runway at the Caribbean island’s iconic airport.

Jacco Steffens, co-founder of content and streaming website SHOWME Caribbean, said he was remotely operating a web camera pointed at St. Maarten’s Princess Juliana International Airport and streaming on YouTube as usual on Sunday.

That was until he went to zoom into the landing of WestJet Flight WS2276 from Toronto at around 1 p.m. ET.

“I said, ’Something ain’t right,”’ Steffens recalled.

An archived livestream of the airport’s runway on Sunday captured by Steffen’s webcam shows the moment the WestJet flight made its final approach. The plane can be seen flying low over bri

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