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| Date: | Monday 20 July 2015 |
| Time: | 15:00 |
| Type: |  Boeing 747-406 |
| Owner/operator: | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines |
| Registration: | PH-BFG |
| MSN: | 24517/782 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1990 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor |
| Location: | Curaçao Int Airport, Hato -
 Curaçao
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Amsterdam-Schiphol International Airport (AMS/EHAM) |
| CUR | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Flight KL735 suffered a bird strike during landing at Curaçao. A bird was ingested in one of the engines. The return flight to Amsterdam was cancelled.
Sources:
http://curacaochronicle.com/aviation/bird-strike-caused-klm-aircraft-to-be-grounded/
https://www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl/nieuws/categorie/2/airlines/boeing-747-klm-gestrand-op-curacao-na-bird-strike
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 16 June 1991 | PH-BFG | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines | 0 | Philadelphia, PA |  |
non |
| Turbulence | ||||||
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 21-Jul-2015 19:37 | Menno | Added |
| 21-Jul-2015 19:43 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Total fatalities, Location, Nature, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 23-May-2022 04:47 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location, ] |
| 08-Jun-2022 23:40 | Ron Averes | Updated [Operator, ] |
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