Emirates plane crash-lands at Dubai airport
An Emirates plane has crash-landed at Dubai International Airport. All 300 people on board were able to escape from the burning aircraft.
The plane appeared to have landed on its belly, and images showed thick black smoke rising into the sky. The cause of the incident is not known. The Boeing 777 was flying to Dubai from the southern Indian state of Kerala.
A passenger on board the plane told
“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.”
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