Dubai: Passengers evacuated from an Emirates flight say that minutes before the flight crash-landed at Dubai airport, the pilot made an announcement that he needed to make an emergency landing.
The flight took off from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, with 300 people on board.
Iype Vallikadan, a reporter from Kerala's "Mathrubhumi News," says the passengers said the pilot spoke to them as the plane neared Dubai on Wednesday, 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 passengers and crew on board the aircraft were evacuated within minutes of the landing.
The flight took off from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, with 300 people on board.
Iype Vallikadan, a reporter from Kerala's "Mathrubhumi News," says the passengers said the pilot spoke to them as the plane neared Dubai on Wednesday, saying there was a problem with the landing gear and that he would make an emergency landing.
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