Dubai-based Emirates Airline said there were no fatalities among passengers and crew from the flight, which crash-landed at the Dubai International airport on 3 August, although a fireman died while attending to the fire that erupted shortly following the aircraft landing.

Some 13 passengers were injured due to the explosion, with 10 of those injured still in the hospital as of 4 August, according to local media reports.

The crash-landing took place at 12:45pm Dubai time. The airport resumed flight departures at around 6:30pm.

The Emirates Airline (EK) 521 had 300 passengers and crew on board. It originated from India’s Thiruvandrum Airport  and was seen making an emergency landing at the Dubai International airport at around 12:45pm Dubai time on 3 August. 

Pictures circulating on social media showed thick and heavy smoke emerging from the middle segment of the parked aircraft. Some reports says the aircraft landed without a visible landing gear.

The flight between Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of India’s Kerala, and Dubai takes an average of four hours.

The aircraft is understood to be a Boeing 777-300, acquired in 2003.

On 19 March, a Flydubai flight crashed at Russia’s Rostov-on-Don airport, claiming the lives of 62 people on board. The crash was the first fatal accident involving either of Dubai’s two airlines Emirates or Flydubai.