Does anyone know whether flight KL992 on 26-05-2023 flew with passengers? The standard departure time 17:50 already got extended to 19:00 (LCY, very nice airport to wait an additional hour), then while waiting for the bus (after/during gate boarding), we were all sent up, because the plane wouldn't go anywhere after a bird strike happening on the inbound flight. There was no engineer available that night, so everyone was sent to a hotel and rebooked for two (!) days later on BA. I managed to get another flight after 1 day instead of 2 days.

I know that bird strikes are excluded from EU compensations and KLM took care of us by reimbursing the hotel and taxi to the different airport we were departing from, so that's fine.

However, I've noticed that my original flight actually did depart the same night. I was surprised to get a flight notification from FlightAware with an arrival time of 23:50 (original ETA was 20:05). The bird strike would still be the reason for the delay, so whether this flight actually operated with passengers or was just to get the plane back to AMS, it would still not valid for EU compensation.

Does anyone here know / is there a way to find out whether that delayed flight was accepting passengers or not?

To my opinion, but I might be very wrong here, if my original flight was operating with passengers, but I was not informed, nor did I get a boarding pass or ticket for that KL992 the same night, would my overnight delay then be a denial of boarding instead of a bird strike?