A company representative reached by Al Arabiya English said they could not comment further on the accident, but that all passengers and crew are safe.
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Emirates, the region’s biggest carrier, said the plane had left Trivandrum global airport at 10.19am and was due to land at Dubai worldwide airport at 12.50pm.
Images posted online show thick black smoke coming from the plane and severe damage to the aircraft.
Meanwhile, Dubai Media Office confirmed that emergency response teams at Dubai Airport have fully extinguished the fire on the Emirates plane.
Mathrubhumi News covers the southern Indian state of Kerala, from where the flight originated.
It was a close shave for passengers on board an Emirates flight from Thiruvananthapuram to Dubai, which crash landed at the Dubai International Airport on Wednesday.
They say they are now expecting a four hour network wide delay.
The company said its main priority was to those involved and offering support to concerned family and friends and set up a United Kingdom telephone line for family members 00442034508853.
The drama unfolded when a passenger jet was on fire at Dubai Airport after it reportedly crash landed on Wednesday.
Operator Dubai Airports said all arrivals and departures at Dubai International had been suspended until further notice and an update on the status of operations at the airport would be issued at 5 p.m. (1300 GMT).
According to Quest, Dubai-based Emirates is the largest airline in the world by available seat kilometers (ASK) – the measure of an airline’s passenger carrying capacity – which multiplies seats available by distance flown.
The airline had initially said that there were 275 passengers and crew on board.
Still, flight disruptions from Dubai will nonetheless affect travelers worldwide.
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“We all were make to exit the aircraft through the emergency shoots and within no time the entire crew and the passengers came out before an explosion occurred in the front portion of the aircraft”, said the passenger.
