Emirates Crash Landing

The investigation into the Emirates jet crash landing at Dubai International on August 3 will take two to three years to complete, the director general of the United Arab Emirates General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said on Sunday.

A preliminary report released Tuesday into last month's Emirates airliner crash landing in Dubai found that the pilot attempted to take off again after briefly touching down, and that the plane ultimately hit the runway as it tried to climb with its landing gear retracting.

All 282 passengers on board an Emirates flight from Thiruvananthapuram that survived a crash-landing in Dubai have been told by the airline that they will receive a compensation totalling $7,000 each, according to a media report today.

When an Emirates flight from Thiruvananthapuram crash-landed at the Dubai airport last week, a sudden, powerful change in wind direction was a primary cause.

After an Emirates jetliner arriving from India caught fire after slumping onto the runway in Dubai on Wednesday, one firefighter died in the intense blaze.

When their plane crash-landed at the Dubai airport, sliding on its belly to a halt before going up in flames, some of the passengers on the Emirates flight tried to pull out their bags from overhead bins despite the emergency.

Two Dubai-bound Emirates Airlines flights from Chennai have been delayed by at least nine hours following the closure of the airport there in view of the crash landing of a flight from Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday.

An Emirates jumbo jet crash lands in Dubai, suffers an apparent engine explosion, and loses most of its top section to fire. The plane comes to rest looking as though someone used a giant, flame-throwing can opener to rip open the length of the cabin.

Emirates suffered the worst incident in its 30-year history when a Boeing 777-300 arriving from India crash-landed in Dubai before bursting into flames, with all people on board escaping unharmed.

Hundreds of passengers fled an Emirates airliner that crash-landed and caught fire in Dubai on Wednesday, resulting in the death of a firefighter and a four-hour shutdown of the busy airport.

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.

An Emirates airline flight from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala crash-landed at the Dubai International Airport and caught fire on Wednesday.

A plane headed from Dubai to Maldives with more than 300 people on board was forced to land in Mumbai this afternoon after smoke was seen in the cockpit and cabin.

The investigation into the Emirates jet crash landing at Dubai International on August 3 will take two to three years to complete, the director general of the United Arab Emirates General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said on Sunday.

A preliminary report released Tuesday into last month's Emirates airliner crash landing in Dubai found that the pilot attempted to take off again after briefly touching down, and that the plane ultimately hit the runway as it tried to climb with its landing gear retracting.

All 282 passengers on board an Emirates flight from Thiruvananthapuram that survived a crash-landing in Dubai have been told by the airline that they will receive a compensation totalling $7,000 each, according to a media report today.

When an Emirates flight from Thiruvananthapuram crash-landed at the Dubai airport last week, a sudden, powerful change in wind direction was a primary cause.

After an Emirates jetliner arriving from India caught fire after slumping onto the runway in Dubai on Wednesday, one firefighter died in the intense blaze.

When their plane crash-landed at the Dubai airport, sliding on its belly to a halt before going up in flames, some of the passengers on the Emirates flight tried to pull out their bags from overhead bins despite the emergency.

Two Dubai-bound Emirates Airlines flights from Chennai have been delayed by at least nine hours following the closure of the airport there in view of the crash landing of a flight from Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday.

An Emirates jumbo jet crash lands in Dubai, suffers an apparent engine explosion, and loses most of its top section to fire. The plane comes to rest looking as though someone used a giant, flame-throwing can opener to rip open the length of the cabin.

Emirates suffered the worst incident in its 30-year history when a Boeing 777-300 arriving from India crash-landed in Dubai before bursting into flames, with all people on board escaping unharmed.

Hundreds of passengers fled an Emirates airliner that crash-landed and caught fire in Dubai on Wednesday, resulting in the death of a firefighter and a four-hour shutdown of the busy airport.

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.

An Emirates airline flight from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala crash-landed at the Dubai International Airport and caught fire on Wednesday.

A plane headed from Dubai to Maldives with more than 300 people on board was forced to land in Mumbai this afternoon after smoke was seen in the cockpit and cabin.