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On 4 October 1992, El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747-200F cargo jet en route to Tel Aviv, lost both right-wing engines (#3 and #4) just after taking off from Schiphol and crashed into an apartment building in the Bijlmer neighbourhood of Amsterdam while attempting to return to the airport. A total of 47 people were killed, including the plane's ...
KLM operations at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. KLM was set up by Albert Plesman on 7 October 1919 and started operations on 19 May 1920. [1] The first route served was the Amsterdam to London, flown with DH.9As that carried just two passengers on a charter basis.
On 21 May 1946, KLM was the first continental European airline to start scheduled transatlantic flights between Amsterdam and New York City using Douglas DC-4 aircraft. [11] By 1948, KLM had reconstructed its network and services to Africa, North and South America, and the Caribbean resumed.
A person died after 'ending up' in the spinning turbine blades of a passenger plane at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, KLM said in a news release.
File photo: KLM planes at an airport (AP 2018) A person has been killed after falling into the engine of a KLM aircraft that was about to take off from Schiphol airport in Amsterdam .
15 November 2024: Flight 661, a Airbus A330-203 (PH-AOA), en route to Houston-George Bush Intercontinental Airport, returned to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol after birds were ingested into both of its engines during takeoff from runway 24. Engine vibrations were reported by the crew during the initial climb.
KLM Cityhopper is the regional airline subsidiary of KLM, headquartered in Haarlemmermeer, North Holland, Netherlands. It is based at nearby Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. As a subsidiary of Air France–KLM, it is an affiliate of SkyTeam. The airline operates scheduled European feeder services on behalf of KLM.
A map of Amsterdam showing the aircraft's flight path marked in green: 1. Engine nos. 3 and 4 break off 2. Engine nos. 3 and 4 come down 3. First mayday broadcast by pilot 4. Pilot reports fire in the engine 5. Pilot reports problems with the flaps 6. Aircraft becomes totally uncontrollable 7. Aircraft crashes