Last Pushback & Flight of Captain Hein Kuipers @ KLM

Captain Hein Kuipers made his last flight due to retirement at KLM. Together with First Officer Geert-Jaap Sisterman and Seconde Officer Joël Prak as his ‘Wingmen’ heading for final destination Paramaribo and back Amsterdam. As surprise ( orchestrated by retired KLM Captain Henk de Vries)  I operated the pushback of KL713 as a push&pull abeam Alpha 16 from stand F4. KL713 got operated with a B777-300ER reg PHBVW. Backflight KL714 was the first flight in the very early morning. Captain Hein landed at 5:02am on runway 27 and after vacating the runway taxying to final stand Echo 19. Flight KL714 […]
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Last KLM 747 Flight to PBM-Paramaribo @ FO Tim Wijnberg

First Officer 747 Tim Wijnberg operated the last 747 flight to PBM-Paramaribo. Flight KL713 ,departure at 28th of March 2020, heading to PBM with a RWY 36L departure. This flight got operated with Captain Ramon de Groot ( chief instructor 747 ) and Second Officer Joris Hoekstra as his ‘Wingmen’. Once arrived at PBM they did fly back on same retourflight as passengers with flight KL714. This retourflight was with B747-Fullpax reg PH-BFL and arrival on RWY 06.     Videostills…………..  
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Last Flight on KLM B747 // PH-BFY // PBM @ KL713 – 19/3/2020

KL713 // PH-BFY // Departure 19/3/2020 // RWY 36L This cockpit- and cabincrew of flight KL713 ,  departure on 19th of March 2020, problaby made their last and 747 Farewell Flight to Paramaribo. Another repatriation flight bringing the people back home to Holland on backflight KL714. KL713 got operated with the PH-BFY and a RWY 36L departure. Causing a cloudburst during climbout……….wonderfull The airtraffic controller at Tower West did have a nice conversation with the pilot monitoring…………     Videostills………..
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Last Flight on KLM B747 // PBM // PH BFL @ KL713 – 17/3/2020

Flight KL713 heading to PBM -Paramaribo on the 17th of March 2020. This cockpit- and cabincrew problaby made their last or one and a last 747 flight. RWY24 ‘Kaagbaan’ for departure and operated with the B747-Fullpax reg PH-BFL ETD 11.16 LT // 17-3-2020     Videostills…………  
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Last Flight of Captain Shlomi Sapir @ KLM

Captain Shlomi Sapir made his last flight due to retirement with KLM. Together with First Officer Jeff Robertson,and his wife and son, heading to PBM with flight KL713. A runway 36L departure,operated with the PH-BFG as flight KL713. The returnflight got operated with the PH-BFL and arrived on runway 36R. After waiting for a while on the remote,final stand Echo22 was set free.   Youtube videolink >>>>>click on next videolink>>>>>Last Flight of Captain Shlomi Sapir @ KLM    Videostills…………..
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Last Flight of Captain Otto van Bruggen @ KLM

Captain Otto made his last flight due to his retirement at KLM. Together with First Officers Helen Hüpscher-Bakker and Sezer Kok they departed to PBM – Paramaribo. Flight Kl713 heading to PBM with a phenomenal wingroll during climbout from runway 36L. Backflight KL714 with landing at the same runway , 18R , and a very smooth landing. Both flights got operated with the B747 Fullpax ,with registration PH-BFY.   Watch the video by clicking next Youtubelink >>>>>   Video with the phenomenal wingroll…………..   Videostills…………………
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