Emirates flight in emergency landing

Dubai: A Dubai-bound Emirates flight from Bangkok made an emergency landing at Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in India yesterday due to technical problems.

An Emirates spokesperson told Gulf News in an e-mailed statement: "Emirates can confirm flight EK 385, an A380 aircraft from Bangkok to Dubai, was diverted to Hyderabad international airport today at 03:45 hours due to a technical snag in the aircraft," adding that all 410 passengers aboard disembarked safely.

Of those, 205 passengers later departed on EK 527, a Boeing 777 aircraft, at 10:20 local time, Emirates said, and a relief aircraft was deployed to carry the remaining passengers.