Emirates plane crash-lands in Dubai

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Dubai plane crash: Emirates expects network-wide delay after flight EK521 bursts into flames on crash-landing.

An Emirates passenger plane burst into flames as it crash landed at Dubai airport on Wednesday but all 300 passengers and crew members survived the impact.

There were 24 Britons aboard Emirates Flight EK521 when it came crashing down in the final moments of a return flight from Thiruvananthapuram in southern India.

Shortly before the Boeing 777 was due to land, the pilot informed passengers that there was a problem with the landing gear and that he would be forced into an emergency landing, according to Indian media.

It is not clear if the landing gear failed to deploy or if it buckled upon landing.

All aboard were evacuated within minutes of the crash landing and only one person - a crew member - was taken to hospital for treatment, according to TP Seetharam, the Indian ambassador to the UAE...http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08 ... e-on-fire/
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As usual that conflicts with other reports. If they knew there was a problem with the landing gear they would have reported this to ATC well prior to an attempted emergency landing (although it's clear from the pics that the landing gear was either not deployed or massively collapsed). There were also reports of wind shear (which might also explain why it crashed/dipped on its right side). And also reportedly it was a failed go around.

If ATC were aware of a landing gear issue and potential belly landing they would have had emergency crews/fire engines at the ready prior to landing. Did they?
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Agreed, if there had been a problem beforehand, emergency response vehicles would have been over the plane like flies. This does not seem to be the case judging from the poor video.
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Dubai plane crash: landing gear investigated as firefighter confirmed dead
Video footage showed that the plane appeared to have come down on its belly without the use of its wheels, lending credence to the theory that the landing gear was at fault.

Monitoring site the Aviation Herald said that according to air traffic control recordings no emergency was declared by the aircraft but the control tower reminded the crew to lower the gear as it cleared it to to land.

Some people waiting for relatives said passengers had been informed there was a problem with the landing gear.

Iype Vallikadan, a reporter from Indian newspaper Mathrubhumi News, told the Associated Press that passengers said the pilot spoke to them as the plane neared Dubai, saying there was a problem with the landing gear and that he would make an emergency landing.

Passengers said the cabin crew opened all the emergency exits of the plane and that all 300 passengers and crew on board the aircraft were evacuated within minutes of the landing.

Aviation expert David Learmount suggested the heat – it was almost 50C – could have been a factor. “If you get a damaged wing and fuel comes out of it, it vaporises in temperatures like that and vapour is highly inflammable,” he said.

Dubai was also relatively windy with dust blowing and wind shear – a potentially hazardous condition involving sudden and unpredictable changes in wind direction or speed – reported on all runways...https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... ai-airport
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CEOCambodiaNews wrote: said the pilot spoke to them as the plane neared Dubai, saying there was a problem with the landing gear and that he would make an emergency landing.
Still doesn't make sense that the pilot would tell the passengers that, but the ATC tried to "remind" them to lower their gear. WTF? Did the pilot forget to actually call an emergency???

This is going to make a good Air Crash Investigations episode.
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aviate, navigate, communicate, in this order of priority
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