Media item

Airline Amsterdam-Djakarta discontinued

Week number 57-50

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
01:36
Publication date:
2 December 1957
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER575-HRE00015A72

Because of the New Guinea issue, Indonesia has forbidden the Netherlands to land in Indonesia. The last plain, the KLM-Super Constallation Electron, returns to Schiphol Airport. With several newspaper headlines on the landing ban. Also archive material of KLM airplanes on the airport and the flight of the first airplane to Batavia in 1924.