Last Flight of Captain Hans Onderwater @ KLM

Captain Hans Onderwater made his last flight due to retirement at KLM. On this flight Hans got assisted by first officer Jeff van Vught and second officer Valentijn van Ee as his ‘Wingmen’. Special occasion is his daughter Melanie , cabin attendant on her fathers last flight. Flight KL789 , AMS-SXM, heading for Sint Maarten. Stand D7 and taxying for a runway 36L departure. This flight got operated by a B789 Dreamliner reg PHBHH. Returnflight KL789 started at Sint Maarten to Georgetown. Thereafter the last part heading for homebase Amsterdam. A nice approach and landing on runway 06. After vacating […]
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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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