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An Emirates jet carrying 300 people crashed and everyone survived. Time
An Emirates Airlines Boeing 777 from Trivandrum to Dubai lays on the ground in Dubai airport after being gutted by fire at Dubai International Airport.(Photo: Stringer, EPA)
An Emirates airline flight from India to Dubai crash-landed<span style="color: Red;">*</span>at Dubai’s main airport Wednesday, and all 300 people<span style="color: Red;">*</span>onboard survived,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the airline said.
One firefighter was killed while responding to accident, said<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the airline's chairman and CEO said.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum also said 10 people were hospitalized after the incident at Dubai International Airport.
The 282 passengers and 18 crew members were safe and accounted for after the accident, Emirates<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said, while providing<span style="color: Red;">*</span>no details about what happened.
Dubai-based Emirates, the Mideast’s biggest airline,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the crash-landing happened at 12:45 p.m. local time as Flight EK521 was arriving from the southern Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram.
Social media users reported<span style="color: Red;">*</span>smoke at the scene, and images showed a plane on fire on the airport's runway.
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A passenger, Iype Vallikadan, said<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the pilot had announced<span style="color: Red;">*</span>there was a problem with the landing gear as the plane neared Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and he would make an emergency landing, the Associated Press reported.
After landing, the cabin crew opened all the emergency exits, and everyone was evacuated within minutes, the news agency<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said.
The passengers included six U.S. citizens, the airline said. Also onboard were 226 people from India, 24 from Britain, 11 from the Emirates, six from Saudi Arabia, five from Turkey and four from Ireland.
Two people each came from Australia, Brazil, Germany, Malaysia and Thailand, and one each from Croatia, Egypt, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lebanon, Philippines, South Africa, Switzerland and Tunisia.
Boeing, the U.S. plane manufacturer, said a technical team is standing by to participate in the investigation with the National Transportation Safety Board.
Saif Mohamed Al Suwaidi, director general of Dubai's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>General Civil Aviation Authority, tweeted that the agency “has mobilized the investigation team” working with Emirates airlines and Dubai airport.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>“Our main concern is the safety and well-being of all passengers and cabin crew right now,” he said.
Emirates was founded in 1985 and has a good safety record.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Dubai International is the region's busiest airport, handling 78 million passengers last year.
The airport said other flights were delayed for about six hours<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and resumed a little before 7 p.m. local time.
Contributing: Bart Jansen in Washington, D.C.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
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