One firefighter is dead and more than a dozen injured when an Emirates Boeing 777 burst into flames today after an emergency landing at Dubai’s airport. All 300 passengers and crew were able to evacuate safely, but flames consumed the airliner, Reuters reported. An estimated thirteen were taken to a hospital.
A landing gear problem and an attempted go-around were reported. While the pre-landing condition of the airliner hasn’t been confirmed, news outlets saythe gear could have collapsed, sparking the fire. The accident is under investigation.A videoon NBC News shows the airliner on the ground with a ball of fire erupting and tearing off a piece of the aircraft as black smoke billowed from the flames. “The fire began to spread rapidly and by the time the fire engines got there the entire top half of the plane was on fire,” according to a network official who was in the airport terminal.
