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The Dutch flag carrier airline KLM operates a fleet of 116 aircraft. The narrow-body fleet is composed of Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft which will be replaced by the Airbus A320neo family aircraft in 2024. Airbus A330, Boeing 777 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner wide-body aircraft are used on medium and long-haul flights.
The DC-8 was the mainstay of the KLM narrowbody jet fleet. In 1980, KLM carried 9,715,069 passengers. In 1983, it reached an agreement with Boeing to upgrade ten of its Boeing 747-200 aircraft (Three 747-200Bs and seven 747-200Ms) with the stretched-upper-deck modification.
Meurs had 9,200 flight hours, of which 95 hours were on the 747. Schreuder had 17,031 flight hours, of which 543 hours were on the 747. The aircraft was a Boeing 747-206B, registration PH-BUF, named Rijn . The KLM jet was carrying 14 crew members and 235 passengers, including 52 children.
The Boeing 747-400 is a large, long-range wide-body airliner produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, an advanced variant of the initial Boeing 747.The "Advanced Series 300" was announced at the September 1984 Farnborough Airshow, targeting a 10% cost reduction with more efficient engines and 1,000 nautical miles [nmi] (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) of additional range.
The aircraft, PH-BFC, remained in service with KLM until its retirement from the fleet on 14 March 2018. [7] It became part of the KLM Asia fleet in 1995 when the subsidiary was established to allow KLM to fly to both Taiwan and mainland China. PH-BFC was later repainted in the standard KLM livery after a maintenance check. [8]
Total 747-100 Series: 205 747-200B January 16, 1971 KLM: December 20, 1990 United States Air Force: 233 747-200F (Freighter) March 10, 1972 Lufthansa: November 19, 1991 Nippon Cargo Airlines 73 747-200C (Convertble) April 30, 1973 World Airways: September 26, 1988 Martinair: 13 747-200M (Combi) March 7, 1975 Air Canada: April 5, 1988 Iberia ...
KLM Flight 861, captained by Issac Risseeuw, was a scheduled flight from Amsterdam to Tokyo-Haneda with planned stops at Athens, Beirut, and Delhi.The airplane was en route over Iraq when it was hijacked by three passengers, claiming to be members of the Arab Youth Organization for the Liberation of Palestine.