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Over the weekend, KLM performed its final commercial flight with a Boeing 747 aircraft. After 49 years of flying the skies, the company ended passenger operations with the jumbo following a flight from Mexico City.

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Coordinates: 61.1717°N 149.9867°W On 15 December 1989, KLM Flight 867, en route from Amsterdam to Narita International Airport Tokyo, was forced to make an emergency landing at Anchorage International Airport, Alaska, when all four engines failed.

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The Boeing 747 is a large, long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023. After introducing the 707 in October 1958, Pan Am wanted a jet 21⁄2 times its size, to reduce its seat cost by 30%. In 1965, Joe Sutter left the 737 development program to design the 747.

KLM operates its final Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet passenger flight

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March 15th, 2023 will mark two years since the very last Boeing 747 in KLM's stunning blue livery departed the Ducth flag carrier's primary hub at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS) for good. The jumbo jet, registered as PH-BFV, took off from Amsterdam Schiphol at 09:20 and headed for storage facilities at Teruel in Spain.

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This weekend, KLM will operate its final Boeing 747 passenger flights, bringing an end to nearly 50 years of service with the airline. The 747 was scheduled to exit the fleet in 2021, but the impacts of COVID-19 flight restrictions and plummeting passenger demand have forced KLM to move the schedule forward. The final KLM 747 flight

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The final journey In the late hours of December 15th, 2004, the 230 ft (70 m) fuselage of the KLM Boeing 747-200, along with the other sections, was transported through the waterways of Amsterdam. A number of canals were cleared out for the special transport to Lelystad.

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A Business Class seat on board a former refurbished KLM Boeing 747-400 Economy Comfort and Economy Class seats on board a KLM Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. World Business Class is KLM's long-haul business class product. Seats in the older World Business Class are 20 inches (51 cm) wide and have a 60-inch (150 cm) pitch.

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HONG KONG, HONG KONG - OCTOBER 23: A Boeing 747 passenger plane belonging to the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flies into the clouds after lifting off from Hong Kong International Airport, on 23 October 2017, in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. (Photo by studioEAST/Getty Images)

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Despite both aircraft attempting to avoid each other, with the Pan Am plane veering sharply onto the grass and the KLM Boeing 747 pulling up, they were unable to avoid the collision.. As explained in extensive piece published by The Sun, the KLM aircraft's undercarriage and engines hit the top of the Pan Am plane at speed, resulting in a catastrophic crash.

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Published Jun 25, 2021 Last year, KLM retired its last Boeing 747 aircraft. This brought the curtain down on nearly half a century of jumbo jet operations at the Dutch flag carrier. The first variant of the 'Queen of the skies' that KLM operated was the 747-200, which initially had the same short upper deck as the original 747-100.

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Published Jun 22, 2021 Dutch flag carrier and Skyteam member KLM was one of many airlines to have its long-haul operations revolutionized by the iconic Boeing 747 family. All in all, the Amsterdam-based airline flew variants of the 'Queen of the skies' for nearly half a century.

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KLM operates its final Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet passenger flight

The world's scariest airplane landing—or coolest, depending on who you ask—happens when KLM flies its Boeing 747 flight into St. Maarten's Princess Juliana International Airport. For years.

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The Boeing 747-8Fs' production will come to an end this year, so that wouldn't be an option. In the coming years, Air France-KLM will focus on developing an efficient cargo fleet with newer aircraft. Air France (AF) itself operates two Boeing 777Fs, while four A350Fs are on order too, which will all be based at Paris Charles De Gaulle (CDG).

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KLM's Boeing 747 will be retiring after 50 years of loyal service. Fans of this magnificent machine have been awaiting the phase out with a heavy heart for some time. I am also dreading the departure of the Grand Old Lady, which got me wondering why people develop such warm feelings for an aircraft.