Chaos inside Emirates plane that crash-landed in Dubai

The chaotic scene on board the crashed plane in Dubai

Video footage has revealed scenes of chaos inside the Emirates plane that crash-landed and burst into flames in Dubai.

Passengers were seen rummaging for their belongings in overhead lockers as staff shouted at them to leave their things and jump down the emergency slide.

All of the 282 passengers and 18 crew escaped with their lives after flight EK521 from Thiruvananthapuram in India was forced into an emergency landing before exploding in a fireball that gutted the fuselage yesterday lunchtime.

As the flames took hold, a male crew member is heard shouting: “Leave everything, leave the bags!” and tells passengers to jump down the emergency slide.

Passengers are seem herded towards the exits and a female crew member tells them: “Jump Jump! Leave your bags behind! Jump and slide!”

Twenty-four Britons were among those on board the Boeing 777-300.

Passengers on board said the pilot told them there was a problem with the landing gear and that he would be making an emergency landing.

Footage posted online showed flames bursting out of the front and clouds of black smoke.

A mobile phone video filmed by passenger Rehan Quereshi shows flames taking hold as he escapes the burning jet and tumbles to the runway.

Tributes were today paid to firefighter Jassim Eissa al-Baloushi who died while tackling the blaze.

Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, tweeted that Mr Baloushi died “protecting life and saving people”.

Fourteen other people were treated in hospital for their injuries.

Emirates said the cause of the crash was under investigation but faulty landing gear has been identified as a likely casue.

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