{"id":26751,"date":"2016-08-03T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T10:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/?p=26751"},"modified":"2016-08-03T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T10:30:05","slug":"emirates-plane-from-trivandrum-crash-lands-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/emirates-plane-from-trivandrum-crash-lands-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Emirates Plane from Trivandrum Crash Lands in Dubai, All Passengers Safe!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Emirates airline flight from Trivandrum crash-landed at Dubai airport and caught fire on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/1pI66jrI5dU<\/p>\n<p>The plane, a Boeing 777, landed on its tail at the Dubai International Airport and its right wing caught fire. The Dubai government media office said on its Twitter account that all 275 passengers were evacuated safely and no injuries have been reported so far. Around 60% of passengers from Kerala.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26753\" src=\"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2016\/08\/BD83A1E1-40A3-4FFA-8DFD-2D78F04D6F77-1.jpg\" alt=\"BD83A1E1-40A3-4FFA-8DFD-2D78F04D6F77 (1)\" width=\"749\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2016\/08\/BD83A1E1-40A3-4FFA-8DFD-2D78F04D6F77-1.jpg 749w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2016\/08\/BD83A1E1-40A3-4FFA-8DFD-2D78F04D6F77-1-222x148.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The plane landed at 12.45 pm local time &#8220;after an incident&#8221;, said Emirates in a statement. Emergency response teams were activated soon after the accident.\u00a0Images on TV and social media showed thick smoke rising from the top of a burning plane. Early reports suggest that there was an issue with the landing gear because of which the airline was forced to do a \u201cbelly-landing.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Emergency response teams have been activated and all passengers and crew have been safely evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DXBMediaOffice\/status\/760778000862474240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All departure flights from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dubai?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Dubai<\/a> International Airport have been delayed until further notice<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DXBMediaOffice\/status\/760774805524283396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Flight records from the website also indicate the plane flew a number of routes in the days preceding the incident, including flights between Dubai and Tunis and between Tunis and Luqa (Malta) on August 2nd, and between Dubai and Abuja and back on August 1st.<\/p>\n<p>Flights from Dubai have been delayed and others heading for Dubai have been diverted to Sharjah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Emirates airline flight from Trivandrum crash-landed at Dubai airport and caught fire on Wednesday. https:\/\/youtu.be\/1pI66jrI5dU The plane, a Boeing 777, landed on its tail at the Dubai International Airport and its right wing caught fire. The Dubai government media office said on its Twitter account that all 275 passengers were evacuated safely and no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":26754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26751"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26758,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26751\/revisions\/26758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}