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Tourist nearly decapitated while taking picture of landing plane

ST. BARTS — Some people will do anything to get a good photo.

Take this tourist for example. Photographer Sebastien Politano captured the moment a man nearly lost his head trying to take a photo of a plane landing on the Caribbean island of St. Barts. 

According to the website Stuff, the lucky man ducks at the last second but had his hand grazed by a wheel of the plane as it was headed for the runway at Gustaf III Airport.

According to a Reddit user, below may be the photo the man with the camera had taken:

"At this time I think he doesn't realize that he is a lucky man," Politano tells the Daily Mail, a London newspaper.

The Gustaf III airport is considered the third most-dangerous airport in the world because of how close the planes come to the road when landing.

Watch the video HERE. (The 360-degree video was captured by an omnidirectional camera, users can move the image around to see the plane)


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