New video surfacing on social media from on board an Emirates flight that made an emergency crash landing in Dubai Wednesday, shows the confusion and chaos as passengers scrambled to escape the plane.
The video shows passengers grabbing luggage from overhead compartments as screams and crying can be heard.
“Leave everything, leave the bags!” one flight attendant is heard yelling as passengers crush towards the emergency exits.
“Jump and slide,” another Emirates crew member says, directing passengers to use the inflatable slides to reach the safety of the tarmac.
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As the passenger who recorded the video slides down the emergency escape, the camera shows the left engine of the plane burning and what appears to be a tangled second inflatable slide that failed to deploy.
“Everybody get out through one way, single door,” passenger Sayi Baskhar told CBS News.
The final moments of the video show passengers landing on one another and running away from the Boeing 777 just before a massive fire ball engulfed the aircraft.
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Emirates said that 157 of the 282 passengers aboard Flight EK521 stayed in Dubai following the accident, while the rest remained in transit at the airport.
Five passengers who suffered minor injuries were taken to local hospitals, the airline said. A cabin crew member was hospitalized and was expected to be released Thursday.
Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum, Emirates’ chairman and CEO, has met with all of the crew members involved, the airline said.
The airline cancelled 27 flights Wednesday because of the accident and delayed and rescheduled others, affecting travel plans for 23,000 passengers. It diverted 23 incoming flights to Dubai’s second airport, other Emirati airports in Sharjah, Al Ain and Fujairah, and airports in nearby Oman and Bahrain.
It is letting passengers affected by the disruptions cancel or rebook their tickets for free.
The airline refused for a second day to provide details on what caused the crash and what the circumstances were immediately before the plane hit the ground.
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A problem with the landing gear appeared to have contributed to the accident, with images of the smoking plane showing it coming to rest on its belly. Emirates declined to confirm whether the landing gear had been successfully deployed.
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Winds of 39 kilometres an hour (24 mph) blew toward the northwest at the airfield at the time of the crash, according to the United Arab Emirates’ National Center for Meteorology and Seismology. There also were reports of wind shear, a sudden downdraft encountered by aircraft that can be dangerous, especially for planes near the ground.
The United Arab Emirates’ General Civil Aviation Authority, the aviation watchdog charged with investigating plane crashes in the country, issued a statement Thursday saying that work was underway to recover the flight data and cockpit voice recorders.
The recorders, also known as “black boxes,” will be analyzed at its facility in the federal capital, Abu Dhabi. American and British investigators will participate in the probe because the Boeing plane was built in the U.S. and was powered by British-made Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines.
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Chicago-based Boeing said it is prepared to deploy a technical team to assist with the investigation in co-ordination with the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. It referred queries on the investigation to the UAE GCAA.
Investigators expect to issue a preliminary report on the crash within a month.
Records show Emirates leased the plane from Dublin, Ireland-based AerCap Holdings. A spokeswoman for the leasing company, Gillian Culhane, declined to comment.
Also on Thursday, mourners in the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah buried the body of firefighter Jassim al-Balooshi, who was killed responding to the crash-landing.
The GCAA said he was killed in an explosion that happened while firefighters were battling the blaze.
-With files from The Associated Press
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