An Emirates flight from Kerala crashlanded at Dubai International Airport on Wednesday, but all the 300 people on board were safely evacuated, the Dubai government said. Emirates has also confirmed the news. 226 people on board were Indians.
“Emirates can confirm that an incident happened at Dubai International Airport on 3rd August 2016 at about 12.45pm local time,” the airline’s website said.
Emirates also listed some helpline numbers:
Thiruvananthapuram: 04713377337
UAE – 8002111
UK – 00442034508853
US – 0018113502081
“We can confirm flight EK521 from Thiruvananthapuram to Dubai has been involved in an accident at Dubai International,” the carrier posted on its Twitter account. Emirates also said that there were no fatalities and that all 282 passengers and 18 crew members are safe.
The Boeing 777 aircraft, took off at 10.19am from Trivandrum International Airport and was set to land at 12.50pm at Dubai International Airport, Emirates said on its web site.
The Dubai government’s media office wrote on its Twitter account that all opeartions, including any departures, from Dubai International have been halted “until further notice.”
Emirates happens to be the Middle East’s biggest airline.
There are reports claiming that there was an explosion when the plane came crashing down. Footage on social media, claiming to be of the crashed plane, shows thick black smoke billowing from a plane.