Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten

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Jacob Louis Veldhuyzen van Zanten (Lisse, February 5, 1927–Tenerife, March 27 , 1977) was the captain of the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Flight 4805, named Rijn (Rhine River), one of the two Boeing 747 airliners involved in the Tenerife disaster at Los Rodeos Airport on the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, killing 583 people.

Veldhuyzen van Zanten entered service at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in 1950, and was an expert pilot with 11.700 hours of flight at the time of the disaster, even though he was mostly a flight instructor; nearly all KLM pilots who flew a Boeing 747 airplane in 1977 had been tutored by him. He was also a model for KLM's advertisements, including those in magazines on the planes. He was nicknamed Mr. KLM.

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