The hotel in the background at St. Martin is the Maho Beach Hotel.
The first Air France approach that you show may well have been one of two separate approaches by the same 
pilot in which the rear main trucks took out a four foot high chain link fence (there is no blast fence) at the approach end.  
This is a fence that locals and tourists like to hang on to when jumbos rev-up for takeoff (I imagine that it gets a little warm).  
Fortunately nobody was standing there or at least  managed to get out of the way for the two Air France approaches.  
The runway is somewhat small for the jumbos.  Rumor has it that the Air France captain was fired after the second fence killing.
 
The last time that I was there the (1992?) you could easily see the new section of chainlink fence that was replaced.
 
            - Regards, Greg Long, Captain, GII,III,IV, Challenger 601-3A, B-727, B-707
 

Amusing your shot of the Air France plane landing in Juliana airport and what was even more amusing is that before 
they made it illegal, the locals used to take their dogs to that strip of beach and wait for the very large planes to take 
off from that end of the runaway and when the planes accelerated to take off the draft of air was so strong that they would
throw their dogs in the air at the same time and the force of the the jet air would catapult the dogs into the ocean!
Great to watch but not so great for the dogs I suppose! 

David Henderson.
 

The Air France Photo

I'm a mechanic for American Airlines, I was vacationing at Simpson Bay, St. Martin about 5yrs ago. 
I was told I would be staying at a resort 3-5 mi. from the airport, little did I realize that it would be at the apron of
the airport. I was sitting on the beach relaxing watching the planes land at the airport, when I saw a 747  
coming in on final approach. I watched it come all the way in, I sitting thinking to myself wow these planes really come
low on this airfield. So now he's about a 1/4 of a mile out and I'm saying to myself gee he's really low.
He came in so low over the beach I could see the undercarriage so clearly that he took out the perimeter fence 
of the airport and dragged a large section of fence with him all the way down the runway.
In your picture you show a cement wall along the road, if he would have hit it there definitely would have been 
a spectacular crash, because he probably would have taken out the landing gear. Later on the pilot came out with
the airport police to see his handiwork and was scratching his head. He could see where his landing gear had hit the 
hash marks on the apron of the runway.

Ted Schoelkopf
 

I spent a few years flying into and out of Juliana, St, Maarten with Eastern Airlines. The real humor of that place was not
so much the low approach over the beach because as you have depicted these pictures, it looks like the pilot was too low.  
He wasn't the end of the runway is just across the road in the picture...the one with the cars and tourists.  
The real humor was about half way down the runway on the right side there was a little hotel, purportedly a "gay" establishment 
called "Mary's Boone".  It was no more than fifty or so feet from the side of the runway and owing to the airport 
having no taxiways, it was necessary to make a 180 degree turn on the runway after landing.  
The approach plates cautioned that a turn to the RIGHT was appropriate but occasionally in the heat of the landing, 
the pilot would forget, and the phone call that came from the manager of Mary's Boone would screech that,
"even the doilies were blown off the tables!"

C.P. Baker, Eastern, ret.