Last Flight of Captain Bart van der Made @ KLM

Captain Bart van der Made made his last flight due to retirement at KLM. A last flight to Miami and back homebase Amsterdam. On this flight Bart got assisted by his good friend and captain Victor van Gool as his ‘Wingman’. Flight KL627, stand E2 and a runway 24 departure. After the awesome ‘wingwave’ some words of the airtraffic controller kept on hanging. ‘KLM627…everything allright ???’. The same airtraffic controller who ignored them when mentioning it was Bart’s last and retirementflight. KL627 got operated with a A330-300 reg PHAKB. Returnflight KL628 was operated with another A330-300, reg PHAKE. A nice […]
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Last Flight of Cpt B747F Xander del Prado @ Martinair Cargo

Captain Xander del Prado made his last flight due to retirement at MartinairCargo. AMS-MIA-AMS. His last flight got operated with the B747-400ERF with reg PH-CKA Flight MP6141 with a one hour delay departed at RWY36L together with ‘Wingmen’ FO Sander de Kok and FO Jaap Schnitker. Back- and final flight MP7762 , callsign ‘DelPrado029’ , departed with a 24hr delay , and got a RWY06 arrival and supported by his ‘Wingman’ FO Charles Boom. On this flight as well…Martinair Captain Roelof van Dam and Captain André Kager.(non flying) I got appreciated by a phenomenal ‘Bokito Call’ at ATC as ‘Bokito […]
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