Emirates crash investigation could last three years: GCAA
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The investigation into the Emirates Airline crash landing at Dubai International on 3 August will take two to three years to complete, the director general of UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) told local media on Sunday.
The crash was the first major accident in Emirates’ more-than-30-year history. All 300 passengers and crew safely evacuated the jet but a firefighter died tackling flames after the Boeing 777-300, arriving from India, caught fire after skidding along the Dubai airport runway on its fuselage.
In a preliminary report released on 6 September, the federal aviation authority said the pilot of flight EK521 tried to abort the landing after the plane’s main wheels had already touched down.
Dubai Director General Saif Mohammed al-Suwaidi, told Arabian Business the investigation would be completed by 2019 and the GCAA was likely to introduce “some precautionary measures” before then.
A two- to three-year timeframe “to complete an investigation report of this nature is not unusual”, an Emirates spokesperson said.
Al-Suwaidi also said he expected the Russian-led investigation into the 19 March flydubai crash in southern Russia to take “another two years.”
All 62 passengers and crew on board were killed in the crash.
A statement released by the Moscow-based Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) on 8 April suggested pilot error was to blame for the accident.
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