Emirates plane crash-lands at Dubai airport

 

 

An Emirates airline flight from India has crash-landed at Dubai International Airport, the Dubai government media office says.

Images posted online show thick black smoke coming from the plane.

The Dubai government media office said on its Twitter account that all passengers were evacuated safely and no injuries have been reported so far.
The Boeing 777 was reportedly flying from the Indian city of Trivandrum to Dubai.

The live air traffic monitor Flightradar24 said takeoffs and landings at Dubai had been suspended because of the incident.

                           

It said the plane involved was a Boeing 777-300 A6-EMW, and the flight involved was EK521 coming from Thiruvananthapuram, also known as Trivandrum.