20 Jun

Last Flight of Captain Jan Nap @ KLM

Captain Jan Nap made his last flight due to retirement at KLM. Heading for Aruba-Bonaire with first officer Sean and second officer Tom as his “Wingmen”. First the PHAKF was planned for this flight, but it got changed to a A330-200 reg PHAOF. I operated and filmed the push & pull from stand Echo 17. Thereafter Jan got a RWY24 departure. Filming Jan’s retirementflight was a surprise orchestrated by his friend and Airbus Captain Victor van Gool. Backflight KL767 , Bonaire-Amsterdam, got a windy landing on RWY18R and operated with an A330-300 reg PHAKB. Vacating the runway at V2 taxying […]
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27 May

Last Flight of Captain Ronald Tjassens @ KLM

Captain Ronald Tjassens made his last flight due to retirement at KLM. On his retirementflight Ronald got assisted by First Officer Erik Rubing and Second Officer Erik de Groot. Good friend Captain Harold van Drumpt went to Bonaire the day before. So he was able to catch Ronald and join the stay together. Flight KL767 , AMS-AUA-BON, on stand G7, got a RWY24 departure and was operated by the A330-200 reg PHAOA. Backflight KL767 BON-AMS, got a very nice approach and a ‘greaser’ with his final landing on RWY18R. His retirementflight got also operated with a A330-200 and reg PHAOD. […]
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06 Oct

Last Flight of Captain GJ van Teeffelen @ KLM

Captain GJ van Teeffelen made his last flight due to retirement at KLM. Together with First Officers Bas van Wetten & Jan Thibau as his ‘Wingmen’  heading for Aruba-Bonaire. Flight KL767 , stand E2 and operated with the A330-300 reg PHAKE. After a techinal issue occurred they went back to stand G73. The problem got solved and they finally departed on RWY24. Backflight KL767 BON-AMS got a special approach. Flying across the airport for a left downwind and landing RWY18R. This last flight got operated with the A330-300 reg PHAKD     Videostills……
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30 Jun

Last Flight of Captain Richard de Waard @ KLM

Captain Richard de Waard made his last flight due to retirement at KLM. Richard got assisted by First Officers Nick Verplak and Brian Vreugdenhil as his ‘Wingmen’. Also surprised by the pushback operated and filmed by Bokito. Flight KL765 , AUA-BON // Aruba-Bonaire, stand Delta 49 and operated with the A330-200 reg PHAOA. The pushback got operated with the largest pushbacktruck AM500 reg KK // Kilo-Kilo. This is a real V8 16L truck. Backflight KL767 BON-AMS, with callsign KLM-DeWaard-767, got a RWY18R arrival and operated with a A330-300 reg PH-AKE. Vacating runway 18R and taxying to final stand Echo 17. […]
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