On 10 June 2018, a Boeing 737-800 departing Amsterdam with line training in progress and a safety pilot assisting only became airborne just before the runway end. The Investigation found that the wrong reduced thrust takeoff performance data had been used without any of the pilots noticing and without full thrust being selected as the end of the runway approached. The operator was found to have had several similar events, not all of which had been reported. The implied absence at the operator of a meaningful safety culture and its ineffective flight operations safety oversight process were also noted.
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On 10 June 2018, a Boeing 737-800 (PH-BXG) being operated by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines on a scheduled international passenger flight from Amsterdam to Munich, which was being used for line training with an observing Safety Pilot and taking off from Amsterdam in day VMC, only just became airborne before the end of the runway was reached during a reduced thrust takeoff. The event was not reported to the operator who only discovered evidence of it during routine analysis of operational flight data almost three months later after which it was notified to the State Investigation Agency.
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