Emirates Plane Crash-lands at Dubai Airport
Category: World News
An Emirates plane has crash-landed at Dubai International Airport and caught fire.
All 300 people on board were able to escape from the burning aircraft, but a firefighter was killed tackling the blaze.
The Boeing 777 appeared to have landed on its belly, and images showed thick black smoke rising into the sky.
Emirates chairman Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum paid tribute to the firefighter who lost his life fighting the blaze.
The aircraft was flying to Dubai from the southern Indian state of Kerala.
Flights to and from the airport were suspended for several hours but have now resumed.
The
Emirates chairman told a press conference that evacuation procedures
were executed professionally and the cabin crew were the last to leave
the plane.
Thirteen people had suffered minor injuries, he said.
A passenger on board the plane told Reuters news agency that the experience was terrifying.
"As we were landing there was smoke coming out in the cabin," said Sharon Maryam Sharji.
"People
were screaming and we had a very hard landing. We left by going down
the emergency slides and as we were leaving on the runway, we could see
the whole plane catch fire."
Emirates said there were 282
passengers and 18 crew on board from 20 nationalities, most of them
Indian, with 24 Britons and 11 people from the United Arab Emirates.
The captain and the first officer have over 7,000 hours of flying experience each, the airline said.
BBC
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