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Courtesy Aviation Herald:

Accident: Emirates B773 at Dubai on Aug 3rd 2016, touched down during go-around without gear, aircraft on fire

The last seconds of slide out after failed go-around:

The aircraft erupting into flames (Video: Kazim Abbas):

And from Ben Sandilands Plane Talking:

Emirates 777 destroyed in Dubai crash landing, all onboard reported safe





The Emirates 777 burning near end of Dubai runway

Update 05/08/16: By 'that man' via the Oz...

Dubai plane crash: Fears plane failed to climb in ‘thin air’ caused by intense heat



The crashed Emirates plane at Dubai airport.


On-leave Qantas pilot Jeremy Webb, left, was believed to be co-piloting the plane.

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An Emirates airliner co-piloted by an Australian on leave from Qantas that crashed on landing in Dubai may have failed to perform an attempted go-around because intense heat meant it could not get enough lift.

The Boeing 777 slid along the runway on its belly, catching fire almost immediately on impact at the end of a flight from southern India, leading to a panicked but successful evacuation of all 282 passengers and 18 crew.

However, a firefighter died trying to douse the flames, the only fatality of the accident.
Emirates chairman Sheik Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum said the co-pilot of the plane was an Australian with about 7000 hours of flying experience. The captain was Emirati. It was not known which pilot was flying the aircraft at the time of the crash.

Media reports last night identified the co-pilot as Jeremy Webb, said to be on leave from Qantas.

Emirati officials said there was also an Australian passenger on the flight among 20 different nation­alities, although most passengers were Indian.

Sheik Ahmed rejected any suggestion that the crash was related to an act of terrorism, describing it as an “operational” accident.

An amateur video posted on ­social media showed the aircraft, already heavily engulfed in smoke, twisted to a stop on the runway.

Another video depicts a chaotic scene in the aircraft cabin, with some oxygen masks deployed and cabin crew trying to organise the evacuation.

Some passengers were slowing the exit by reaching into overhead lockers for their ­baggage, contrary to instructions. In one video, an anguished female flight attendant screams at a passenger: “Just stop, leave your bags behind, jump everyone, jump!”
Passenger Sharon Maryam Sharji described the landing and evacuation as “really terrifying”. “There was smoke coming out in the cabin,” she said.

“People were screaming and we had a very hard landing. We left by going down the emergency slides and as we were leaving on the runway we could see the whole plane catch fire: it was horrifying.”

Another video shows a huge explosion soon after the passengers and crew escaped, with what looks like a wing blown sky-high.

Although there were conflicting accounts and no immediate determination of the cause of the crash, attention focused on reports of a go-around attempt and severe weather conditions that might have led to its failure.

The airport faced a combina­tion of wind shear, dust storms, and heat approaching 50C.

Some reports said air traffic control recordings indicated the flight crew had decided to abort the landing and go around, in which case the pilots would have retracted the landing gear, partly raised the flaps, applied full throttle and pointed the nose up.

However, the severe heat would have produced very thin air, making it difficult for the plane to gain purchase and climb out of a descent.

While not speculating on the cause of the accident, Australian Federation of Air Pilots president David Booth said such weather conditions were well known to aviators as dangerous.

“The airplane performance is reduced, the aircraft engines don’t generate as much thrust and the wings don’t provide as much lift,” Captain Booth said.

Such conditions could produce a sudden increase in tailwind, further reducing the ability of the aircraft to pull up, he said.

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