The ten safest airlines on the planet. Emirates Airlines is investigating the incident with an Airbus A380 at Domodedovo Airline accident statistics by airline

On Wednesday, August 3, a Boeing 777-300 owned by Emirates Airlines was operating flight EK521 from the Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala state in the southwest of the country) to Dubai.

The destination is incredibly popular among Indian citizens who fly to Dubai for work. There were 300 people on board, of which 282 were passengers. Sai Bhaskar, one of the passengers, told the Times of India that there were no problems during the flight, and there were no reports of technical faults. But according to Mathrubhumi News, the pilot warned passengers before landing in Dubai that there were problems with the landing gear, so they would have to make an emergency landing.

“We felt that the plane first landed, then took off again and hit the ground,” says Sai Bhaskar. “When smoke began to appear in the cabin, we realized that something wrong had happened and things were taking a dangerous turn. It was difficult to open the emergency exits.” Passengers began to evacuate under the guidance of the crew, as Baskar says, some passengers were injured when they tried to jump out of the emergency exits. The team was the last to leave the plane. Both passengers and the airline call the organization of the evacuation “impeccable” and note that they managed to leave the plane in a maximum of a minute.

“If we had stayed on board a minute longer, tragedy would have happened,” says Baskar.

The pilot of a plane near the scene told NDTV that the Boeing landed "with great difficulty, hitting the runway hard with its tail."

There were no casualties among the passengers or crew. One civil defense employee died while extinguishing the fire and carrying out rescue operations. 14 people were hospitalized, including four firefighters. They suffered mostly from burns and carbon monoxide poisoning. Earlier, India's ambassador to the UAE said that "many passengers are in shock, but only one member of the crew was taken to hospital."

Sarah-Louise Sherwood, who was on another plane nearby at the time, said that the people from the Boeing “tried to escape before the big explosion happened, there was fire everywhere. Our plane stopped right next to us, and

passengers on our flight began to pray and scream to be let off the plane.”

A number of media outlets published videos that captured the moment of an emergency landing and an explosion, presumably of the plane’s engine. There, in particular, you can see how the plane is traveling along the runway, leaning on its right side, with columns of thick smoke rising above it. Towards the end of the 30-second video, the smoke becomes darker. Another video captures the moment of the explosion, after which some part flies off the plane.

The airline received the plane in March 2003, and Emirates management officially stated that the cause of the fire could not be its technical condition. The pilot’s professionalism is also not yet in doubt: at a press conference in connection with the incident it was said that the pilot’s experience was 7 thousand hours. According to the official version, it is believed that the fire occurred “after destruction due to a hard landing.”

Due to the incident, the airline canceled 42 flights at Dubai Airport, and the operation of the air harbor was paralyzed for six hours. The General Civil Aviation Administration (GCAA) of the United Arab Emirates has already begun an investigation into the circumstances of the incident. In particular, they will have to establish whether faulty chassis could have caused the accident.

Aviation expert David Learmonth suggested that

One of the emergency factors could have been the heat - it was almost 50°C at Dubai airport.

“If you have a damaged wing and a fuel leak, it evaporates easily at such a high temperature, and these fumes are extremely flammable,” The Guardian quoted him as saying. It is also worth considering that Dubai can often be windy, and the wind often changes direction and speed, creating potentially dangerous conditions for aviation.

The Aviation Herald portal clarifies that the incident at Domodedovo occurred on September 10, but it became known only now.

According to an industry resource, the pilot of an Airbus A380 flying from Dubai to Moscow made a mistake during landing. The A380 airliner, which is considered the largest passenger aircraft in the world, approached the ground to a height of 120 m at a rate of 600 m. After this, the plane began to gain altitude and then went into a second circle. The pilots again failed to land it, so the plane went around for another round. He managed to sit down only on the third attempt. None of the passengers were injured.

Emirates confirmed the incident to Reuters. The airline stressed that the flight is being checked. They declined to provide details, citing the ongoing investigation in the Emirates. According to the agency, the UAE Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) considered the incident “serious.”

Among the 12 companies with an impeccable reputation (the highest reliability index is 0.00), there are several “veterans” - founded in 1922 Qantas Airways, Finnair (1923), Cathay Pacific (1946), All Nippon Airways(1953). Over the past 34 years (JACDEC, which investigates accidents during air travel, has been keeping its own statistics since 1973), these companies have not had a single accident.

The German company can boast of an accident-free reputation (not a single disaster in all the years of its existence). Air Berlin, British Virgin Atlantic Airways, Irish discount company Ryanair, young Arab airlines Emirates and Quatar Airways.

Among other companies, well-known “Europeans” performed well: British Airways(the company has recorded 2 significant incidents and the last 30 years have passed without disasters) and Lufthansa(3 accidents and 13 years without incident).

The only Russian airline included in the Top 50 Aeroflot took 41st place in the rating and received a rating of 0.57. Moreover, the countdown dates back to 1992, when the main and, in fact, uncontested state air carrier became an independent airline. Since that time, 10 accidents have occurred with Aeroflot aircraft, the total number of deaths in which was 182 people. However, for the last 5 years, the airliners of this company have flown without incident.

The largest number of disasters (12) was recorded in Philippine Airlines.

The largest plane crash with the largest number of casualties occurred with a company plane Japan Airlines August 12, 1985, when a Boeing 747-SR crashed into Mount Ogura 100 km from Tokyo. Due to improper repairs, 520 people died, after which several mechanics and engineers committed suicide.

Top 50 is the airline that closes Turkish Airlines(score - 3.49): it had 10 major accidents, the largest of which in 1974 claimed the lives of 346 people.

Among the safest aircraft - Boeing 777: Not a single one of the 600 cars of this model produced since 1994 appears in accident statistics.

In general, as Aero International notes, the results can be called encouraging: over the past year, the largest airlines have not had any significant accidents. According to the magazine’s experts, control is being strengthened, and so-called “flight bans” have become a formidable weapon, applied not only in the EU countries, but throughout the world. Globalization also plays a positive role, thanks to which large airline alliances must equally maintain a high level of safety.

These are the 60 best airlines in the world. Even if the airline is at the bottom of the list, this still means the highest level of reliability.

Among Russian airlines there are only 2 Transaero (number 23) and Aeroflot (number 37). Now (with the departure of Transaero) there is only one left - it’s a shame...

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	ETIHAD AIRWAYS
	AIR CANADA
	QATAR AIRWAYS
	ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS
	VIRGIN ATLANTIC AIRWAYS
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	VIRGIN AUSTRALIA
	JETBLUE AIRWAYS
	LUFTHANSA
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	SOUTHWEST AIRLINES
	JETSTAR AIRWAYS
	AIR BERLIN
	DELTA AIR LINES
	THOMSON AIRWAYS
	SINGAPORE AIRLINES
	UNITED AIRLINES
	MALAYSIA AIRLINES
	JET AIRWAYS
	CHINA EASTERN AIRLINES
	AEROFLOT
	ALITALIA
	LAN AIRLINES
	AIR FRANCE
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	GOL TRANSPORTES AEREOS
	GARUDA INDONESIA
	TAM AIRLINES
	AIR INDIA
	CHINA AIRLINES
	VIETNAM AIRLINES
	LION AIR

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Emirates Airlines is investigating an incident with an Airbus A380 at Moscow Domodedovo Airport. The airliner almost crashed, falling to a critically low altitude during landing. Read also:Horrible Royal Flight flight: “the plane was praying almost in unison” The pilots were able to land the plane only on the third attempt. The incident occurred on September 10, but it became known only now. Was it pilot or controller error?

The world's largest Airbus A380 of Emirates Airlines, traveling on flight EK-131, dropped to an altitude of 120 meters during landing, compared to the normal altitude of 500 meters. After a critical approach to the ground, the plane began to gain altitude and went into a second circle, but the pilots were again unable to land the plane. According to Aviation Herald, he landed on only his third attempt. At the same time, visibility was normal.

The incident with the world's largest passenger airliner, the A-380, on approach to Domodedovo on September 10 could have been the result of the actions of the pilots or a technical malfunction, a source familiar with the investigation told Interfax.

“On September 10, the Emirates Airlines A-380 aircraft critically descended to 120 meters before landing at Domodedovo, and then went into an additional circle. However, an analysis of the work of air traffic controllers showed that their actions, as well as the state of technical control equipment, were within normal limits. The dispatchers did not make any mistakes,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

He said that two main versions of what happened were being considered.

“Among the main versions, both the actions of the pilots, the correctness of which has yet to be assessed, and the technical condition of the aircraft are considered. The investigation will show which of these reasons could have triggered the plane’s critical descent,” the source said.

He noted that the airliner's crew did not report any problems to air traffic controllers. “The pilots did not receive signals from the pilots about a malfunction or requests for help. During the post-flight survey, they also claimed that the flight was normal,” the source clarified.

According to his information, the crew did not obey dispatchers’ commands to adhere to a height of 500 meters and allowed them to fall to 150-120 meters.

The incident with an Airbus A380 flying from Dubai became known on September 21. The airliner was able to land in Domodedovo only on the third attempt. There were more than 400 passengers on board. The UAE Civil Aviation Authority is investigating the incident.

The UAE aviation authorities, which are investigating the incident with an Emirates plane at Domodedovo airport, have no questions for Russian dispatchers, the State Corporation for Air Traffic Management (ATM) told RIA Novosti.

According to media reports, on September 10, an Emirates flight from Dubai was able to land at Domodedovo only on the third attempt. As reported, on approaching the runway the plane dropped to a critically low altitude, and the plane also failed to land a second time.

“The incident occurred while descending to land on runway 14R. There were 420 passengers and 26 crew members on board the plane,” the statement said.

Reuters, in turn, reports with reference to the GCAA that the incident is being investigated as a “serious incident.” According to the international classification, this means that the accident was barely avoided.

Earlier, Aviation Herald reported that on the evening of September 10, the A380-800 airliner, flying flight EK131 from Dubai, for unknown reasons, dropped to an altitude of 120 m at a distance of about 15 km from the runway of Domodedovo Airport (the normal altitude at this point of the glide path is more than 600 m ). The crew aborted the landing attempt and managed to land the plane only on the third attempt, 35 minutes after the first approach. The airliner was not damaged and there were no casualties.

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