Last Flight of Captain Lucien van Dongen @ KLM

Captain Lucien van Dongen made his last flight due to retirement at KLM. A retirementflight heading for Miami and back homebase Amsterdam. On this flight captain Lucien got assited by captain Marnix Bochardt as his “Wingman”. Flight KL627,stand F7 and a RWY24 departure. This flight got operated with an A330-300 reg PHAKB. Extra footages will show the landing on MIA and the departure of the returnflight KL628 to Amsterdam Airport. Flight KL628 got a landing on RWY18R in the early morning. After vacating the runway taxying to final stand F3. Lucien’s return- and last flight got operated with an A330-300 […]
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Last Flight of Captain Johan Smids @ KLM

Captain Johan Smids made his last flight due to retirement at KLM. A flight heading for Bonaire via Aruba, assisted by first officer Gerben as his ‘Wingman’. Flight KL767 , stand D7 and RWY24 with departure got operated with a A330-300 reg PHAKB. Retourflight KL769 , Bonaire-Amsterdam , got a nice landing on RWY18R and after vacating the runway taxying to final stand F6. Flight KL769 got operated with a A330-200 reg PHAOC.     Videostills………
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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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