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7 unusual facts about KLM


1927 KLM Fokker F.VIII crash

The 1927 KLM Fokker F.VIII crash happened on 22 August 1927 when Fokker F.VIII H-NADU of KLM crashed at Underriver, Kent, following structural failure of the tailfin or rudder.

5756 Wassenbergh

Wassenbergh, known to his friends and colleagues as "Or" Wassenbergh, is a Dutch academic and for many years, he was an official of Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM).

Gordon Olley

After leaving the Royal Air Force he worked as a pilot for Handley Page Air Transport, Imperial Airways and KLM.

KNILM

Headquartered in Amsterdam, KNILM was not a subsidiary of the better-known KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines), despite the similar name.

Leopold Bürkner

After his release he became director of the German staff of the Dutch airline KLM in Frankfurt.

Uki Goñi

In Holland, KLM opened an internal investigation following the book's unearthing of documents regarding the use of the airline by Nazi officers after the war.

Underriver

On 22 August 1927, a Fokker F.VIII of KLM crashed at Underriver following structural failure of the tailfin, killing one of the eleven people on board.


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1948 KLM Constellation air disaster

A KLM Lockheed L-049 Constellation airliner (named Nijmegen and registered PH-TEN) crashed into high ground near Glasgow Prestwick Airport, Scotland, on 20 October 1948; all 40 aboard died.

Air Astana

Therefore the airline has been unable to add to its daily service to Frankfurt from Astana, its 6 weekly service to Amsterdam from Atyrau (operated in code share with KLM), and its twice weekly service to London from Almaty.

Airline teletype system

In 1949, the Société Internationale de Télécommunication Aeronautique (SITA) was formed as a cooperative by 11 airlines: Air France, KLM, Sabena, Swissair, TWA, British European Airways, British Overseas Airways Corporation, British South American Airways, Swedish A. G. Aerotransport, Danish Det Danske Luftfartselskab A/S, and Norwegian Det Norske Luftfartselskap.

Diether Lukesch

He then became a commercial airline pilot, flying for 18 years first with KLM, and later Lufthansa.

Dnata Singapore

Ground handling operations began in Singapore in December 1977 with the incorporation of Changi International Airport Services (CIAS) as a joint venture between the Port of Singapore Authority and five airlines, namely Air France, China Airlines, Garuda Indonesia, KLM and Lufthansa.

FF Scala

FF Scala used to be the house typeface for the prominent Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad and for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

Fokker F.III

KLM received 14 F.IIIs from Fokker's German factory at Schwerin during 1921 and built two more itself from spares in the following year.

Fokker F.VII

On December 6, 1931, a KLM F.VIIb/3m, registration PH-AFO, crashed at Bangkok after failing to take off, killing five of seven on board.

Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten

That same year, he, along with two of his colleagues, went to Seattle to take delivery of KLM’s first 747, the Mississippi (registered PH-BUA).

Leo Visser

After his career as a speed skater, Visser became a pilot and he is now captain on the Boeing 777 for Dutch airline KLM.

Linear optical quantum computing

At its root, the KLM scheme induces an effective interaction between photons by making projective measurements with photodetectors, which falls into the category of non-deterministic quantum computation.

Michael Pucci

His Decorations include 3 Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals (NMCM), 3 Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals (NCAM), 6 Good Conduct Medal (GCM), National Defense Service Medal (NDSM), Southwest Asia Service Medal (SWA) with three stars for service in three campaigns (Defense of Saudi Arabia, Liberation and Defense of Kuwait, Southwest Asia Cease-Fire), Kuwait Liberation Medal (KLM — Saudi Arabia), Kuwait Liberation Medal (KLM — Emirate of Kuwait).

NVI F.K.33

KLM successfully operated the type for two years on its Amsterdam-London-Paris-Malmö route, but doing an increasing amount of business with Fokker, did not purchase further aircraft from NVI.

Papadates, Aetolia-Acarnania

Papadates is located 12 klm away from the city of Agrinio, on the foothills of Arakynthos mountain and is one of the villages surrounding Lake Trichonida, the biggest Greek natural lake.

Rekkof Aircraft

KLM, a current user of Fokker aircraft and suggested as a launch customer, has denied that they are in negotiations with Rekkof and has Embraer regional jets on order to replace their Fokker fleet.

Spinetta

Jean-Cyril Spinetta (b. 1943), French businessman, Chairman and CEO of Air France-KLM

The British School in the Netherlands

Konrad Bartelski was a student of the BSN between 1960 and 1972, Konrad was the son of a KLM pilot and no one at that time could have foreseen that he would go on to become a world champion runner up in downhill skiing.

Veldhuyzen van Zanten

Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, KLM pilot involved in the 1977 Tenerife airport disaster


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