Emirates airliner with 300 onboard crash lands in Dubai

This image made from video shows smoke rising after an Emirates flight crash landed at Dubai International Airport on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016. The plane at right was unaffected Dubai-based airline Emirates has confirmed that there were no fatalities on a flight from India that crash-landed . The carrier says “all passengers and crew are accounted for and safe.” It raised the number of people onboard the flight to 300, saying there were 282 passengers, 18 crew.(Hayen Ayari via AP) This image made from video shows smoke rising after an Emirates flight crash landed at Dubai International Airport on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016. The plane at right was unaffected Dubai-based airline Emirates has confirmed that there were no fatalities on a flight from India that crash-landed . The carrier says “all passengers and crew are accounted for and safe.” It raised the number of people onboard the flight to 300, saying there were 282 passengers, 18 crew.(Hayen Ayari via AP)

By Associated Press August 3, 2016 3 min read

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – An Emirates flight from India with 300 people on board crash landed at Dubai’s main airport on Wednesday, sending black smoke billowing into the air and halting all traffic at the Middle East’s busiest airport. Authorities said all passengers were evacuated safely.

Dubai-based Emirates said the accident happened around 12:45 p.m. local time as Flight EK521 was arriving from the southern Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram.

It confirmed there were no fatalities and said “all passengers and crew are accounted for and safe.”

The Boeing 777 was carrying 282 passengers and 18 crew members, according to the airline, which had earlier provided a lower figure.

The Dubai government’s official media office separately said that all passengers were “evacuated safely and no injuries have been reported so far.”