The 282 passengers and 18 crew members were safe and accounted for after the accident, Emirates said, while providing no details about what happened. Thirteen people had minor wounds.
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The video was uploaded to YouTube on August 4, and shows passengers of flight EK521 grabbing their personal belongings in the overhead compartments as smoke filled the cabin.
Contact has yet to be established with them as they are still in the emergency response room.
A video taken by a passenger during the sudden evacuation of all 275 passengers and crew has now emerged, revealing the chaos inside the flight as it crash-landed.
On board the flight, there were 20 different nationalities, a lot of them were Indian, with six Americans, two Australians, 24 Britons and 11 people from the United Arab Emirates, BBC reports.
Dubai International airport, the world’s third-busiest, closed minutes after the crash-landing and diverted flights for long-haul carrier Emirates and others across the UAE and into other countries.
The ground handlers threat to go on stir and the crash landing of an aircraft on Dubai International airport hit Chennai airport as several flights were delayed.
Dramatic video footage has been released from inside the aircraft that crash-landed at Dubai International Airport on 3 August.
Emirates said the cause of the crash was under investigation but faulty landing gear has been identified as a likely casue. Dubai authorities said all passengers were evacuated safely.
Operations at Dubai airport are suspended until further notice.
“After resuming departure operations at 18.30hrs, Dubai Airports has now commenced arrival operations at DXB under restricted capacity”.
The airlines said there were 226 Indians aboard the Boeing 777-300. Emirates chairman and chief executive Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum told a press conference that 10 people had been admitted to hospital after the incident.
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“23,000 Emirates passengers impacted by the disruption”.
