It is wonderful that the evacuation went so well.
Chris
> On 4 Aug 2016, at 17:27, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Unless the gear had been retracted for a go-around, but aircraft failed to
>> climb due to windshear. According to some reports.
>
> Details and misinformation are still getting sorted out. The initial
> storyline is that the flight crew initiated a go around, but failed to
> gain altitude and landed on partially retracted landing gear. Most
> airlines have the policy that you don't change configurations until
> positive rate of climb has been achieved and things have stabilized
> into a standard climb-out. Dubai gets some weird localized weather and
> it's possible they encountered wind-sheer, even though the wind
> conditions weren't that bad at the time.
>
>
>> All souls aboard survived, be thankful.
>
> One fire-fighter died. But everybody did get off the plane in
> relatively one piece.
>
> Fortunately, the plane came to a stop next to the runway and didn't
> encounter any berms or ditches.
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