Plane crash-lands at Dubai airport

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Source: BBC

Plane crash-lands at Dubai airport

9 minutes ago

Plane crash-lands at Dubai airport, no reports of any injuries so far, all passengers safely evacuated - officials


Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36963112

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Just the headline so far.

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1. Well done if they safely evacuated everyone from this

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2. More info from NBC News

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/travel/emirates-jet-burns-runway-after-dubai-airport-incident-n622046

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Emirates confirmed that Flight EK521 from Thiruvananthapuram, India, to Dubai has been "involved in an accident" at the airport at around 12:45 p.m. local time (4:45 a.m. ET). It said that 275 passengers and crew were aboard.

In a statement, the airline added: "Our main priority is now the safety and well-being of all involved."

Tracking websites identified the aircraft as a Boeing 777-300 that was delivered to the airline in 2003.

Authorities said that passengers had been able to disembark from the burning jet.

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3. Dubai airport suspends flights after Emirates jet crash-lands

Authorities have not given any details on the cause of the crash, though Aviation Herald, an independent website specialising in information on air accidents, cited air traffic control recordings which suggest a problem with the landing gear.

In the recordings cited by Aviation Herald, the crew announced they were aborting the landing to “go around”, a routine procedure for which pilots are well trained, but the aircraft came to rest near the end of the runway instead.

There was no immediate confirmation on whether the landing gear was extended when the aircraft touched the ground, though images of the plane taken after it crashed suggest that it made a belly landing, which is what happens when landing gear is not fully extended.

Evacuated passengers told Iype Vallikadan, a reporter from Indian newspaper Mathrubhumi News, that minutes before the flight crash-landed, the pilot announced that he needed to make an emergency landing.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/03/passengers-evacuated-after-plane-crash-lands-at-dubai-airport

Just one person, a crew member, taken to hospital.



Some amateur footage here, including what looks like the explosion of the right engine at some stage, and the plane slewing to a stop resting on that wing and engine without the undercarriage down:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36963112