Last Flight of FO Pieter Hofstede @ KLM

First Officer Pieter Hofstede made his last flight due to retirement at KLM. A retirementflight with chief pilot Martijn Göttgens as his ‘Wingman’. Flight KL765 heading for Bonaire via Aruba. KL765, stand F7 and with a runway 36C departure. This flight got operated with a A330-200 reg PHAOD. Returnflight KL767 got a nice runway 06 approach/landing and operated with another A330-200 reg PHAOC.     Videostills……………  
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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 A330 Arthur Waller @ KLM

Captain Arthur Waller made his last flight due to retirement at KLM.  His last destination in career was St Maarten – SXM. Arthur got assisted by his ‘Wingmen’ First Officer Frank Zuidam and Second Officer Danny van Engeldorp Gastelaars. His final pushback at SPL operated by my colleague tugdriver Ron Pauw with an AM500 pushbacktruck. I was assisting as tugdriver in training. Both flights got operated with the A330-200 reg PH-AOC. Flight KL729 AMS-SXM and KL730 SXM-AMS with a runway 18R landing.     Videostills………  
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