KLM Files Complaint With Prosecutors Over Power Bank Fire on Flight; Dutch Media Say Passenger Was Its Former CEO Eurlings
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines said on November 13 that it had filed a complaint with Dutch prosecutors over an incident in September in which a passenger's power bank caught fire during a flight. Dutch media reported, citing sources, that the passenger was the airline's former chief executive, Camiel Eurlings. KLM declined to identify the individual involved. Reuters reported the airline's move the same day.
The incident took place on September 17, when a KLM flight that had taken off from Amsterdam turned back over the Atlantic Ocean and returned to Schiphol Airport. Dutch media reported at the time that the fire involved a passenger charging a power bank at his seat; aviation outlets reported that the flight was KL735 to Curaçao, operated by a Boeing 777, and that the crew extinguished the fire before the aircraft returned.
KLM said the complaint followed an internal investigation, and that filing a complaint is standard practice for the airline in cases of serious breaches of safety rules by passengers that put a flight, its passengers or its crew at risk.
Eurlings was KLM's chief executive from July 2013 to October 2014. He did not immediately reply to a request for comment sent via LinkedIn. Dutch prosecutors have not yet decided whether to bring charges.
Source: Reuters
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Photo: 图：荷航一架波音777-300ER在阿姆斯特丹史基浦机场（资料图，非涉事航班）。照片：Robbie Klinkenberg 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: A KLM Boeing 777-300ER at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (file photo, not the flight involved). Photo by Robbie Klinkenberg, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
