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Old 3rd August 2016, 07:51 PM
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Default Emirates B773 Burns On Landing
All passengers and crew apparently safely evacuated.

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An Emirates plane has caught fire on the runway at Dubai Airport after an apparent crash landing.
Gulf News is reporting all passengers on board the Boeing 777 were "safely evacuated".
Aircraft would appear to be Boeing B777-31H A6-EMW (32700) built 2003.

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Old 3rd August 2016, 08:36 PM
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Landing gear collapsed on landing, according to a UAE news source and avherald. Known issue prior to landing, it seems, as emergency services were already activated.
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The latest update on avhearld indicates it may be a botched go-around?

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According to ATC recordings the aircraft performed a normal approach and landing, there was no priority or emergency declared. Upon contacting tower tower reminded the crew of lowering the gear and cleared the aircraft to land. Another approach reported on tower frequency. About 2 minutes after EK-521 reported on tower, the crew reported going around, tower instructed the aircraft to climb to 4000 feet, the crew acknowledged climbing to 4000 feet, a few seconds later tower instructs the next arrival to go around and alerts emergency services. The position of the aircraft is described near the end of the runway.
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The latest update on avhearld indicates it may be a botched go-around?
For me, that raises two questions. Did the crew have any knowledge that the gear wasn't extended? Also, did they mismanage the missed approach procedure and suffer the same fate as the Asiana Airlines 777 at San Francisco?
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Old 3rd August 2016, 09:38 PM
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Given that the Airport is still closed (nothing moving on FR24), the Aircraft must have ended up between the two runways. Good that all appear to have got out safely.

EK415 which departed Sydney at 06:00 today was diverted and has landed at Jebel Ali Airport in Dubai.

EK413 due to depart Sydney tonight at 21:10 is showing as delayed to 22:30.

QF1 returned to Sydney for other reasons (see other thread).
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A few pictures from the incident today.

http://www.thenational.ae/uae/transp...-in-pictures#1

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Ouch. That hurts! So sad to see such a miserable end to such a beautiful machine
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Old 4th August 2016, 07:28 AM
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Much sadder than the sight of that B777 is the news that a firefighter died while helping pax to evacuate (see latest update on avherald.com). No further details given. RIP and my thoughts to your loved ones ��
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Old 4th August 2016, 08:35 AM
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I think 'botched' is a stretch at this point. For all we know the crew attempted to go around but the aircraft failed to respond, which is how I read it.

News.com.au has a pax video from inside the cabin and down the slide. I've two problems with that... one, filming during an evacuation and two, the usual 'grab your bags' attitude.
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