KL701 - Incident: KLM B772 at Amsterdam on Nov 13th 2026

A KLM Boeing 777-200, registration PH-BQB performing flight KL-701 from Amsterdam (Netherlands) to Buenos Aires Ezeiza,BA (Argentina), had lined up runway 24 and was cleared for takeoff when the crew accelerated the engines, a loud bang was heard, the crew aborted takeoff. The aircraft vacated the runway via taxiway B and returned to the apron. The crew advised ATC, that they had a loud bang from the engines while accelerating the engines (GE90), tower thus cancelled the takeoff clearance for the next aircraft. A subsequent runway inspection did not find any debris on the runway.

In a passenger information the crew stated: "as you have noticed, we have aborted our departure because we heared some kind of a loud bang at the right hand side of our aircraft. We will now check what is going on."

Shortly thereafter the crew informed ATC who had queried which engine had been affected: "we think at the left side, but we are not very sure about that." Emergency services reported they were seeing the engine at about 100 degrees C hotter than normal.

The aircraft subsequently taxied to the apron.

The entire rotation including the further sector Santiago (Chile) was cancelled.

The aircraft is still on the ground in Amsterdam about 19 hours after the rejected takeoff.