Last LAX-Flight on KLM B747 // KL601 // PH-BFV @ Captain Nico Koster

Captain Nico Koster a pilot who did fly the 747 for more than 30 years.  At the 17nd of March he made his last 747 flight to LAX-Los Angeles. Thereafter just one 747 flight to go with destination MEX-Mexico City. Flight KL601 ,loaded with 17 horses on the maindeck, departed on runway 24 with the B747-Combi reg PH-BFV. Captain Nico got assisted by First Officer Tjerk van den Herik and Second Officer Robin Koot     Videostills…………  
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Farewell KLM B747 @ PH-BFG // ‘City of Guayaquil’

The very last departure of the fullpax B747 with registration ‘PH-BFG’ as ‘City of Guayaquil’ She got delivered to KLM on April 1990. So after 29,7 years of duty she finally gets phased out. Yesterday,7th of December 2019, she departed for her last commercial flight to Toronto – YYZ. This morning she came back in the early morning.  This afternoon, 8th of December 2019, after some technical checks in hangar 11, they asked finally for her very last clearance. ‘Clearance to final destination Echo-Golf-Bravo-Papa , Volla-One-Papa departure,RWY27 , as you climb level Six-Zero Squawk 6260’ After a pullout of hangar […]
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