INCIDENT AT DUBAI

Posted on 08/03/2016 | About Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The Mideast's biggest airline Emirates says “an incident” has happened at Dubai's main airport as social media users are reporting smoke at the scene.

Dubai-based Emirates says the incident happened at 12:45 p.m. local time (845 GMT) on Tuesday.Officials from the airline and Dubai International Airport are declining to immediately provide further details.According to media reports, the Boeing 777 was flying from Thiruvananthapuram, India, to Dubai, where it had to make an emergency landing. All passengers were reported to have been evacuated safely." Said Channel News Asia.Reports also said the Emirates plane reportedly caught fire after it landed without landing gear at Dubai airport on Wednesday.