News has emerged of a KLM Cityhopper flight that suffered catastrophic faults following it’s departure from Amsterdam Schiphol.
Information has been released pertinent to the incident at hand, which happened on June 19th!
Without further ado, let’s get into it…
KLM Flight KL1765 – Amsterdam to Bremen…
KLM flight KL1765, which suffered the catastrophic faults, is a routine scheduled flight between Amsterdam and Bremen.
Furthermore, the aircraft involved in the incident was PH-EXH.
As per data from Planespotters.net, PH-EXH is a 10.1 year old Embraer E175 that was delivered to the airline back in June 2016 under the Cityhopper subsidiary.
Of the E175 variant, Cityhopper has 17 of them in their fleet, of which 16 are in active service, and one is parked, with an average fleet age of 9.1 years.
As well as the E175, Cityhopper has the following other aircraft in their fleet:
- 25 Embraer E195-E2s.
- 18 Embraer E190s.
In total, KLM Cityhopper has 60 aircraft in their fleet, of which 55 are in active service, and five are parked, with an average fleet age of 8.5 years.
KLM flight KL1765, which suffered the catastrophic faults, departed Amsterdam at 1748 local time on June 19 and initially climbed out towards Bremen, it’s destination.
Not long after departure, the crew declared a PAN PAN to air traffic controllers and proceeded to return back to Schiphol.
After around 40 minutes in the air, the aircraft was able to land without further incident.
What Were The Catastrophic Faults?
As per The Aviation Herald, KLM flight KL1765 Amsterdam-Bremen suffered a significant electrical failure, which resulted in the loss of their instruments.
Despite this significant failure, the crew were able to move the aircraft, but with no access to instruments, it would make returning back difficult at the time.
A replacement aircraft took the affected passengers onto Bremen with a delay of around 4.5 hours.
As for PH-EXH, the aircraft is still grounded at the time of publication, but data from Flightradar24 highlights that it has been assigned the flight to Nuremberg tomorrow (June 21).
If we acquire anymore information on this incident, we will update you accordingly.
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