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An illustrious pilot for KLM: King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands flies its passenger airplanes

Amsterdam, Netherlands - The King has been greeting passengers incognito and flying a Fokker 70 twice a month for 21 years

In an interview to a Dutch newspaper King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands revealed that for twenty-one years twice a month he has been sitting as co-pilot inside the cockpit of a KLM airliner and after greeting passengers he has been flying them to their destinations. King Willem-Alexander -who was inaugurated in 2013 after the abdication of his mother Beatrix- was a pilot of the Royal Netherlands...

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Rome, Italy, 05/19/2017 15:31
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