Emirates Boeing 777-300 crash lands at Dubai Airport - all 300 pasengers safe

An Emirates Boeing 777-300 with 300 people on board crash-landed at Dubai International Airport and burst into flames on the runway. No fatalities have been reported and all those on board were evacuated safely before the the jet was engulfed in a fireball.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 3 August 2016.

The Emirates flight EK521 was carrying 282 passengers and 18 crew. Among the passers were twenty-four Britons and four Irish - they were flying from Kerala, India. It seems the pilot had told the passengers that there was a problem with the landing gear and that he would be making an emergency landing.
India's ambassador to the United Arab Emirates has said that many of the passengers were in shock while Boeing Airplanes has said that their team is monitoring the situation in Dubai and gathering more information.


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This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 3 June 2016.

Obviously, the new three-five-three pattern of seating would be more crowded when compared to its current three-four-three setting. The middle seat will be the most loathed seat in the cabin because whoever is occupying the middle of the middle row would be sandwiched between two lots of two passengers - and that would make it even more difficult to shuffle past seats or talk to the flight crew.
It may be recalled that last year, Emirates set the record for the world's longest flight - it flew an A380 from Dubai to Auckland in 17 hours and 15 minutes.
A380 is the largest passenger jet in the world. It is a double-decker jet with four cabin classes: economy, premium economy, business and first-class. Airbus expects to raise $32 million by adding the extra seats to its double-decker A380s.


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