Emirates airline flight is seen after it crash-landed at Dubai International Airport on Wednesday. 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. (Reuters)Dubai International is by far the Mideast’s busiest airport, and is the world’s busiest air hub in terms of international passenger traffic. Dubai-based Emirates said the accident happened around 12.45 pm local time as Flight EK521 was arriving from Thiruvananthapuram. Government-backed Emirates is the region’s biggest carrier, and operates the world’s largest airline fleet of the wide-body 777 long-haul aircraft.

Source: Hindustan Times August 03, 2016 09:36 UTC