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300 had a narrow escape in Emirates Crash landing in Dubai.

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Emirates plane crash-lands at Dubai airport

Media captionAmateur footage shows a fireball and a plume of thick black smokeAn 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.
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inflatable emergency exit slides can be seen next to the remains of the aircraftA 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.

Analysis by Richard Westcott, transport correspondent
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As is usual following a big accident, there are lots of unconfirmed reports out there speculating about what happened.
The aircraft is sitting on the ground without its landing gear, but it is not clear why the wheels are not down.
Some reports suggest the crew were making a normal, rather than an emergency approach, when air traffic controllers told them to abandon the landing and start climbing again, for unknown reasons.
The answers should come out in the next few days.
Whatever the cause, it is a testament to the crew that they got everyone off the plane.
Richard Westcott: Why air travel is safer than ever

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Flight EK521, direct from Thiruvananthapuram to Dubai, is popular with hundreds of thousands of Kerala residents who work in the Gulf countries.
Emirates is the Middle East's biggest airline, and has an excellent safety record.
It ranked seventh in a survey of the world's safest airlines by AirlineRatings.com, an independent plane safety website.
Dubai International Airport is a major transport hub, one of the world's busiest for international passengers, operating with only two runways.


 
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[video]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/03/watch-emirates-plane-explodes-after-crash-landing-in-dubai/[/video]
 
[video]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/03/watch-emirates-plane-explodes-after-crash-landing-in-dubai/[/video]
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im planning to visit india by EMIRATES......generally emirates has good reputation and BEST AIRLINE AWARD TOO...
 
Hay don't get worried. Emirates has a very good reputation and their flights are just awesome. This may be one stray incidence, of course quite a bad mark on their reputation and hope fully doesn't make a big dent on it.
 
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im planning to visit india by EMIRATES......generally emirates has good reputation and BEST AIRLINE AWARD TOO...

Well this may a one off incidence quite shocking though! But technical snag could happen to any airlines and Emirates is not an exception. What surprised me was there was two near misses also happened yesterday. ABP news reported that another flight from Banglore to Dubai had also an emergency landing at Dubai but was safe, and Two indigo flights came dangerously close one taking off and the other landing ( I think it was near Delhi airport , was heard casually, not sure about airport). Overall it was not a good day for aviation.
 
JUST IN: Indigo flights to and from Dubai are cancelled for the day (Source Rediff)..No reason given..Caught by surprise
 
Let us congratulate the firefighter from Dubai Jasim Issa Mohammed Hassan who saved the lives of 300 passengers & crew of the Emirates flight! Salute his dedication and heroism!!

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Photo:Khaleej Times
 
Very sad indeed!

But how do we justify the escape of 300+ persons and the death of the one who bravely saved them?

Our elders named it 'FATE'!! :sad:
 
Did anyone see the footage?

Some person recorded it and its sickening to watch the passenger running to get their hand luggage instead of exiting.

The flight crew were repeatedly telling...leave the luggage and escape!

But no....people delayed the exit..one female was busy filming it with her phone and did not even want to exit despite fire and smoke in the plane.

Bloody fools! Delayed the evacuation...for all we know if they had exited earlier the fire fighter would not have died!

Its so sad that the fire fighter died for stupid fools on the plane.
 
Let us congratulate the firefighter from Dubai Jasim Issa Mohammed Hassan who saved the lives of 300 passengers & crew of the Emirates flight! Salute his dedication and heroism!!

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Photo:Khaleej Times

Condolences to him who sacrificed his life.
 
How did 300 people escape in less 2 minutes...Due to the crash worthiness of the plane..Watch the video too how they escape
[h=1]It’s No Miracle Everyone Escaped That Fiery Dubai Plane Crash[/h]
Once the smoke had cleared from the runway at Dubai International Airport, you could see the wreckage of what you’d assume was an unsurvivable crash. The fuselage of the Boeing 777 was burnt and twisted. The entire top of the plane’s body melted away, down to the level of the windows, and what was visible of the interior was charred beyond recognition. How could anyone have escaped? Yet every one of the 300 people on board got out safely after the jet landed hard and caught fire Tuesday morning. (One firefighter died in the blaze.)
Investigators are now working to discover what brought down Emirates flight EK521, which flew to Dubai from Thiruvananthapuram, India—photos indicate the landing gear didn’t deploy. What is already clear is that everything went right with the evacuation.
Unsurprisingly, passengers spoke of a terrifying, unexpected trauma. The 18 crew members may have been surprised, but they—like the plane they command—were ready for the worst.
“Crashworthiness is an aeronautical engineering concept as important as airworthiness, and the 777 has had a sterling record for survivable crashes,” says Stephen Trimble of Flight Global, an aviation industry news source. It’s built into the voluminous FAA regulations any aircraft must meet before entering service: Along with using flame-resistant materials wherever possible, the likes of Boeing and Airbus must prove their aircraft can be fully evacuated within 90 seconds—using just half the exits.


To test that, real people are put into numbered bibs and belted into seats on a parked plane. When given the signal, they must navigate blocked exit routes, debris scattered through the cabin, and semi-darkness before leaping onto an inflatable slide.
That test doesn’t perfectly imitate reality: The “passengers” are alert and expecting the order to scram, not sleepy and wondering where they put their passport. They won’t shove past each other to survive, or grab their carry-on on the way out. (In one case, Airbus recruited gym members and had them warm up before the test.) The slides are pre-deployed for their safety, and airline employees lay down mats around them so no one cracks their head.
Still, it’s an impressive demonstration of modern plane design. When Airbus certified its A380 in 2006, 873 people got off the plane in just 78 seconds. Even if it takes two or three times longer in a crash, it’s remarkable.

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To make that happen, you need more than well-marked exits: the cabin staff are crucial for an effective evacuation. Emirates says in this case, its crew executed their procedures professionally, and only left the plane once their 282 passengers were safe. Along with first aid and dealing with obnoxious passengers, those safety procedures are a key part of their intense, five-week training.
“They did a wonderful job,” says Hans Hans Weber, president of Tecop International Inc, an aviation consultancy. “The speed with which they evacuated, they must have had passengers on board who followed orders.”
And that’s the final critical element: the passengers. Crashes like this one are a good reminder that while it’s tempting to ignore the safety announcements that kick off every flight, you should how to get off your plane. Count the rows from your seat to the nearest exit, so you can find it in the dark or if smoke fills the cabin. If you’re in an emergency exit row, know how to operate the door. Do not stop to collect your luggage like some passengers fleeing Asiana Flight 214 after crashing in San Francisco in 2013.
And then relax and enjoy your flight, knowing that if the worst does happen, you, your crew, and your plane are ready.

https://www.wired.com/2016/08/dubai-plane-crash-emirates-flight-ek521/?mbid=social_twitter
 
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