dramatic scenes at the airport in Dubai. Passenger plane lines Emirates emergency landing, and then burst into flames and was destroyed. Initially, there was no information about casualties. A few hours after the accident informed that killed a firefighter, who put out the fire.
According to the Reuters news agency quoting local media state, a passenger plane flying from the Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram made an emergency landing. Still not known, however, for some reason.
Lines Emirates initially reported that the board was a total of 275 people. Later verified, however, for 282 passengers and 12 crew members.
Passengers began to evacuate from the plane when he only stopped at the edge of the runway. All those on board were evacuated before there was an explosion in the machine.
– Immediately after stopping the plane the first thing is a fast evacuation of passengers – said on TVN24 Major Michael Fisher. Widely adopted standards require complete emptying of the plane with passengers within 60 seconds of the announcement of the evacuation. If you can run only one side, the standard rises to 90 seconds. Aircrew intensively practicing the operation.
A few hours after the accident informed that during the action extinguish fire killed a firefighter.
Aborted landing?
According to unconfirmed information portal AV Herald, referring to the amateur video messages from the control tower, the crew did not report any problems before landing. Being already close planting machine at the waist pilots reported that interrupt the maneuver and go-around. A few seconds later, the plane hit the runway.
It is unclear why the pilots were trying to abort the landing.
Burnt plane is the first total loss in the history of the lineage Emirates. Before that happened to her only two potentially dangerous incidents that did not end, however, the destruction of the machines. In both cases, pilots did not manage in time to pick up the aircraft in the air and hit with various objects for the end of the runway.
Author: mk, kg / kk, gak / Source: Reuters, AV Herald, TVN24
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