Dubai: Social media users have taken to Twitter to express their shock and disbelief of Tuesday’s emergency plane crashing, as many lauded the efforts of Emirates who helped passengers and crew to safety.

As part of the certification process of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) – the national aviation authority of the United States – aircraft manufacturers are required to demonstrate that an aircraft, in maximum density configuration, can be completely evacuated within 90 seconds using only half of the total number of emergency exits.

The Boeing 777 aircraft departed at 10.19am from Trivandrum International Airport, and was scheduled to land at 12.50pm at Dubai International Airport.

In a statement, Emirates confirmed that there were 282 passengers and 18 crew on board EK521, flying from Thiruvananthapuram, India, to Dubai.

#EmiratesAirlines highest standards of safety,incident at #dubaiairport reflects limitation of machines,cd happen to best airline,understand— Chaitanya Prasad (@Chatty111Prasad) August 3, 2016

The nationalities of passengers and crew on board were:

226 from India, 24 Britons and 11 Emiratis. There were six people each from the United States and Saudi Arabia, five from Turkey and four from Ireland.

Two people each came from Australia, Brazil, Germany, Malaysia and Thailand, and one each from Croatia, Egypt, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lebanon, Philippines, South Africa, Switzerland and Tunisia.

Departures have resumed at Dubai International Airport, Dubai Media Office confirmed at 6.43pm.

The first flight to depart was a Gulf Air flight to Bahrain, and the second a Qatar Airways flight to to Doha.

275 passengers evacuated safely - well done #emirates crew 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #dubaiairport— Jasmine (@JazBurgess) August 3, 2016

Flydubai has also announced that it has cancelled all flights until 10pm, Tuesday, at Dubai International Airport.

Passengers are advised to contact their travel agent or the flydubai Contact Centre on (+971) 600 54 44 45 to rebook on the next available flydubai flight or receive a refund to original form of payment.