Although the Dutch Soccer team didn`t win the World Cup, the team was welcomed the day after at Schiphol Airport by the Royal Netherlands Air Force.

First two Chinooks arrived with a great low pass around the control tower and landing at a holding spot. The CH-47s should have transported the team to a hotel at Noordwijk, but this was cancelled later and the choppers returned empty.

The KLM B-777 (PH-BQG) was accompanied in Dutch airspace by two F-16s, one being the Dutch Demo flight and the other “the orange jumper” the RNLAF testflight. After a flyby the aircraft landed rather unusually at runway 24. The F-16 departed on touchdown of the triple 7.