Delays, cancellations at Dubai airport after crash-landing

The airline and investigators have not confirmed the findings, and aviation experts caution that much remains unknown about the cause of the crash.

A problem with the landing gear appeared to have contributed to the accident, with images of the smoking plane showing it coming to rest on its belly.

The aircraft, a Boeing 777-300 registration A6-EMW powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines, was travelling from Trivandrum International Airport in Thiruvananthapuram to Dubai.

“I think it indicates that there was some kind of effort to try to gain altitude”, Mikael Robertsson, a co-founder of FlightRadar24, told The Associated Press.

Flight EK521 was flying out of India and was coming in to land in the United Arab Eremites when the pilot tried to abort the landing. Winds of 39 kilometers an hour (24 mph) blew toward the northwest at the airfield, according to the UAE’s National Center for Meteorology and Seismology. Speaking to reporters in Dubai, Emirates Group CEO and Chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum said 10 people were hospitalized after the incident, but stressed that all passengers were safely evacuated before the plane was engulfed in a fireball. It was not clear whether the landing gear was extended when the aircraft touched the ground at 0845 GMT.

“It’s conceivable that during the go-around that they experienced a risky wind shear”, he said.

Ismaeil Al Hosani, assistant director-general of the AAIS, said: “According to the ICAO Annex 13 protocol, the GCAA will issue a preliminary report within one month from the accident date”.

The crash continued to snarl travel plans well into Thursday.

Normal operations at DBX have since resumed, though a number of Emirates flights are still diverted, delayed or cancelled. Of the 282 passengers on the flight EK521, 157 disembarked in Dubai and left the airport yesterday afternoon.

(AP Photo/Jon Gambrell). A family that were passengers onboard an Emirates jetliner that crash landed are helped to a taxi in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016. n Emirates flight from India with 300 people on board crash landed at…

Dubai Airports, the government-controlled owner company of the airport, made a decision to provide free and unlimited internet connections as well as free refreshments to departing passengers. Five who suffered minor injuries were taken to local hospitals, the airline said. “That’s a very positive thing to the cabin crew and to the design of the airplane”, Gadzinski said. An explosion struck one side and in the chaos, one firefighter was killed, Sheikh Ahmed, the Emirates CEO, said. “On completion of the investigation, GCAA will prepare and publish the final investigation report”.

Video tweeted by Rehan Quereshi shows panic-stricken passengers in smoke filled cabin.

“Please don’t do that! Leave everything!” another man shouts, presumably a member of the flight crew.

Flight attendants jumped out of their seats as the plane screeched to a stop, opening emergency doors on the craft and inflating the emergency slides.