Captain Derko Willemsen made his last flight due to retirement at KLM.

His final retourflight was heading to Bangkok and back homebase Amsterdam Airport.

Captain Derko got assisted by first officer (2nd cousin) Jelmer Willemsen and second officer Matthijs Vreenegoor as his ‘Wingmen’.

Flight KL875 , stand F6 with a push & pull operated with the pushbacktruck ‘Kilo Derko’.

This flight got a RWY18L departure and operated with a B777-300ER reg PHBVR.

Backflight KL876 got a wished RWY27 landing.

Captain Derko was grown up in Amstelveen which location he passed on 1.000ft final.

After vacating RWY27 it was a short ride of taxying left on Alpha via Alpha 18 and turning into Alpha17 for final stand F3.

KL876 was operated with another B777-300ER and reg PHBVO.

Career of Captain Derko at KLM:

Captain B777/ 787 KLM (AFKL) 1986-1989

2nd officer B747-200 1989-1994

1st officer B737-300/400 1991-1994

simulator instructor B737 300/400 1994-1998

Capt Fokker100/ route-instructor/ simulator instructor/examiner 1998-2005

Capt B767 2005-2022

Capt. route instructor/ LCA. B777-200/300ER B787-9/10 2023 -2024

Buddy-pilot.

22500 flighthours.

Videostills………….