The North China Regional Administration of CAAC has proposed a 22,000 yuan civil penalty against KLM Royal Dutch Airlines for operating an aircraft with expired certificate of airworthiness, its first civil penalty against a foreign carrier this year.

On May 12, 2014, a KLM Boeing 747 aircraft, Registration PH-BFF, performed flight KL897 from Amsterdam to Beijing with expired certificate of airworthiness, the regional administration announced in a statement on September 5.

The expiry date was April 4, 2014; as a result, its certificate of airworthiness had expired for more than one month. The regional administration said the move of KLM violated the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) provisions and the Chinese civil aviation regulations.

The announcement of the civil penalty proposal is in accordance with the CAAC's Foreign Air Carriers Operational Approval Rules (CCAR-129) and Enforcement Measures of Civil Aviation Civil Penalties.