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Footage has emerged showing smoke filling the inside of an Emirates plane which crashed landed at Dubai International Airport today.

A passenger filmed the terrifying moments after the jet slumped onto the runway before bursting into flames, which later killed a firefighter tackling the huge blaze.

Desperate passengers could be seen scrambling to get their bags from the overhead lockers among the chaos as oxygen masks dangled from the ceiling.

A female member of the cabin crew can be heard shouting at people to "jump" and "leave your bags behind".

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All 300 people on board were safely evacuated from the Emirates airline flight EK521, which had been travelling from India, while 14 people were taken to hospital.

The Dubai carrier's first significant accident happened after the crew apparently attempted to abort the landing for a second attempt amid unconfirmed witness reports of landing gear problems.

Photographs on social media showed a plane lying crumpled on the tarmac with black smoke pouring from its upper section, and later images showed a gap along the length of the charred fuselage where its roof had been.

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Passenger Sharon Maryam Sharji said: "It was actually really terrifying. As we were landing there was smoke coming out in the cabin.

"People were screaming and we had a very hard landing. We left by going down the emergency slides and as we were leaving on the runway we could see the whole plane catch fire. It was horrifying."

Another passenger leaving the airport with his family said there had been a problem with the landing gear.

A spokesman for operator Dubai Airports said everyone aboard flight EK521 coming from Thiruvananthapuram in southern India had been evacuated.

However hero firefighter Jasim Issa Mohammed Hassan died while putting out the flames after the jet crashed.

Saif Al Suwaidi, director of General Civil Aviation Authority said the firefighter “lost his life while saving the lives of others”.

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As reported by The National, Mr Al Suwaidi said: "I salute his ultimate sacrifice that kept many from harm’s way. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family."

Flights at Dubai International resumed at 6:30pm (3:30pm BST) after all arrivals and departures were suspended for over five hours, authorities said.

According to air traffic control recordings cited by Aviation Herald, a respected independent website monitoring air accidents, controllers at Dubai reminded the crew of the Boeing 777 to lower the landing gear as it came into approach.

Shortly afterwards, the crew announced they were aborting the landing to "go around," a routine procedure for which pilots are well trained.

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But the aircraft came to rest near the end of the runway instead, Aviation Herald reported.

It was not immediately clear whether the landing gear was extended by the time the aircraft touched the ground, though a family of passengers who declined to be named said the wheels did not deploy and the jet landed on its belly.

Unverified amateur video posted on Twitter appeared to show the plane sliding on its belly moments after landing, with its right engine torn away from its usual position under the wing.

Emirates initially said there were 275 passengers and crew aboard the plane, in service with the airline since 2003, but later updated that number to 282 passengers and 18 crew.

Both the airline and aircraft have a solid safety record.

It is the first time an aircraft operated by Emirates has been damaged beyond repair since the carrier was founded in the 1980s.

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The crash is nonetheless a blow to the Dubai carrier weeks after it was voted the world's top airline by Skytrax at the Farnborough Airshow, taking the crown from rival Qatar Airways.

Emirates carried 51.3 million passengers in 2015 and is the world's fourth largest carrier in terms of passenger traffic.

It has over 250 aircraft, including the world's largest fleet of Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 jets.