An Emirates airlines plane from India to Dubai after being gutted by fire due to a mechanical failure at Dubai worldwide airport.
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DXB is the world´s largest air hub in terms of worldwide passengers, and is the base for Emirates, which serves more than 153 destinations.
“After resuming departure operations at 18.30hrs, Dubai Airports has now commenced arrival operations at DXB under restricted capacity”.
A firefighter was killed after the Emirates Boeing 777 caught fire on the runway at the airport.
“We are informing our passengers through our call centres that whoever is coming from Dubai to Kerala should go to Sharjah to board the flight”, the sources said.
Full-service carrier Jet Airways announced its schedule on its website, saying a number of its Dubai flights have been cancelled or clubbed with others.
(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.
Emirates chairman Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum paid tribute to the firefighter who lost his life trying to extinguish the blaze.
The airport continues to operate with one runway with higher priority for arriving flights and wide-bodied aircraft.
The incident led to flights at the airport being suspended for more than five hours.
Flight EK521, which was carrying 282 passengers – including 24 Britons and four Irish nationals – and 18 crew members, was arriving from the southern Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram when the accident happened at about 12.45pm local time yesterday.
Flights were beginning to return to normal at Dubai Airport on Thursday morning, after a delay following the fire.
Safety experts said it was too early to pinpoint a cause for the crash, but Dubai authorities have ruled out any security breach.
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“23,000 Emirates passengers impacted by the disruption”.
