Dubai - Plan crash on Dubai Airport

Plan crash on Dubai Airport Aviation experts are investigating whether faulty landing gear could have caused a plane to crash at Dubai international airport and burst into flames, killing a firefighter tackling the blaze, although all 300 passengers and crew were able to escape. The Emirates Boeing 777 was engulfed by intense fire, and black smoke billowed from its fuselage just after it crash-landed at 12.45pm local time (9.45am BST). Passengers on flight EK521, which was travelling from Thiruvananthapuram in the southern Indian state of Kerala, and included 226 people from India and 24 from the UK, spoke of their terror as the plane hit the tarmac. Sharon Maryam Sharji told Reuters: “It was actually really terrifying. As we were landing there was smoke coming out in the cabin. People were screaming and we had a very hard landing. We left by going down the emergency slides and as we were leaving on the runway we could see the whole plane catch fire; it was horrifying.”