Captain Tom made his final flight due to retirement with KLM.

Flight KL745  with a departure on runway 18Center , operated with B789 Dreamliner PH-BHD.

Tom got assisted by first officer Wouter de Haan and second officer Emma Pier.

Backflight KL749 ,with the B789 PH-BHM got an other story than expected. Sanne Porsius (TWR/APP-supervisor)  took control with the talk-in of Tom’s last landing.

They did reserve whole runway 27 ‘Buitenveldertbaan’ for Tom’s last landing. After he landed the aircraft got parked just before exit N4. 

Thereafter the complete fleet of followme-cars from Schiphol Airport ( authority officers and marshallers ) included with ‘Special Eventmanager Ron Onclin’ went onto the runway in front

of Tom’s aircraft. Than he got guided across the runway vacating on N5,left on taxiway Alpha , right on Alpha14. Overthere the crashtenders of ‘Fire Brigade Schiphol Airport’ got positioned around stand Echo 17. 

When Tom did line up to enter stand Echo 17 he got a marvellous water salute and finished his amazing career at KLM.

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