Captain Michael made his last flight due to retirement at KLM.

A last flight with destination Capetown. Michael got assisted by first officer Patrick Valkering as his’Wingman’.

Michael ‘Pants’ vd Broek has been F16 pilot. Michael trained Patrick on the T-37 at the Royal Dutch Airforce.

T-37 is the trainings aircraft before the step into the F16.

On friday the 16th of October flight KL597, callsign KLM105-Heavy, was planned on stand E24 and a RWY18L departure.

Because of the technical delay it would be RWY24 but got recleared to RWY18L again.

A nice departure with a B777-200 reg PHBQL.

In the south of France there was occurring a problem with water pressure and so they got diverted back to Amsterdam.

Landed on RWY27 around 14:50PM

In the evening I was towing the aircraft to the hangar for maintenance.

Happily Michael and Patrick could fly again,2nd attempt, to Capetown next morning , saturday the 17th.

The aircraft was positioned at stand E18.

Their flight got recleared from RWY36C to RWY36L and operated with a B777-300ER reg PHBVW.

On Tuesday the 20th of October captain Michael came back with his returnflight to Amsterdam Airport.

A slight crosswindlanding on RWY06 and operated with another B777-300ER reg PHBVN.

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