Emirates Flight makes emergency landing at Dubai International Airport

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Emirates aircraft flying from Thiruvananthapuram, India, to Dubai made an emergency landing at Dubai International Airport on Wednesday, Dubai airport sources said.

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All passengers have been escorted to safety. The area has been cordoned off.


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Emirates Airline flight from India crash-lands at Dubai airport
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Published: August 3, 2016
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No casualties have been reported thus far. PHOTO SOURCE: TWITTER @THE STRAITS TIMES

DUBAI: An Emirates airline flight coming from India crash-landed at Dubai International Airport on Wednesday, the Dubai government media office said on its official Twitter account, adding that there were no reported casualties yet.

Pictures purportedly showing the incident posted on social media showed a thick black plume of smoke rising from the top of a burning plane.

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The Twitter account of live air traffic monitor Flightradar24 said takeoffs and landings at Dubai had been suspended because of the incident, adding that the plane involved was a Boeing 777-300 A6 EMW.

The flight involved was EK521 coming from Thiruvananthapuram, it said. Airport and company representatives could not be immediately reached for comment.

 

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Thank god everyone is safe, Emirates has a great flight safety record, i would have no hesitation flying with them.

 

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Really angry that some of the passengers literally carried their on board luggage when evacuating the aircraft cause it can delay or harm other passengers BUT unfortunately i think i would do the same (hopefully not) if im in the same situation