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Sunday, August 27, 2017

Landing at Juan Santamaria International Airport, Alajuela, Costa Rica

On Monday, August 7, 2017 we returned to Costa Rica from Houston. We were in a holding pattern for a while waiting for clearance to land at Juan Santamaria International Airport, Alajuela.

Here we are lazily circling over land and the Pacific Ocean:



From the Pacific Ocean looking towards Puntarenas province and I believe that is the Tarcoles River on the right:



Video I made of our actual landing, United Airlines flight 1096, arrived 11:35 am:



Note: If you find that full screen is unavailable, then try the YouTube link. 





2 comments:

Catalyst said...

That landing had me biting my nails! :)

Diana Miskell said...

It was a bit different. We came in from the west, over the airport, did a 180 and landed east to west. There's just the one runway.