What you missed about the Emirates fire and crashlanding

HARROWING footage from inside the burning plane appears to show scenes of panic and chaos — but a closer look reveals a worrying detail.

HARROWING footage from inside the Emirates flight that caught fire and crash-landed in Dubai overnight appears to show scenes of panic and chaos — but a closer looks reveals a worrying detail.

As smoke fills the cabin and terrified passengers scream in terror, many of them can be seen stopping at the overhead compartments to pull down their carry-on baggage rather than evacuate from the burning Boeing 777.

A video filmed inside the cabin shows a cabin aisle blocked with passengers fussing over their luggage, ignoring the desperate pleas from flight crew to leave their bags and jump down the evacuation slide.

One crew member can be heard shouting “Leave the bags, jump and slide!” Soon after, another distressed crew member yells, “Jump! Jump! Jump! Leave your bags behind!”

Some people can be seen struggling to push their way through the clogged aisle as they try to get off the burning jet as quickly as possible.

Evacuation video of #Emirates #EK521 from crash landing #Dubai #Airport this afternoon. Brave #CabinCrew pic.twitter.com/kEZuFh2aa6

— Rehan Quereshi (@rehanquereshi) August 3, 2016

After the video was shared on Twitter many users questioned the priorities of the passengers.

“WTF? Are those people out if their minds?? Why are they taking their bags with them??? It’s slowing the evacuation,” one person wrote.

“As a flight attendant I CRINGE at the time wasted getting their bags out. They endangered their lives & the lives around them,” another person said.

Someone else tweeted: “Wonderfully selfish f*ckwit passengers grabbing their take on luggage & putting cabin crew & fellow passengers in danger.”

The existence of the video itself also raised questions, with some commentators wondering why the person who filmed it did so instead of fleeing for their life.

“People feel filming is more important than getting off a burning plane,” someone wrote.

Fourteen people were taken to hospital after the Emirates plane from India crash-landed at Dubai International Airport. A firefighter was killed battling the blaze on the tarmac. Picture: Al Arabiya

Fourteen people were taken to hospital after flight EK521 with 300 passengers and crew on board burst into flames and dramatically crash-landed on the runway at Dubai International Airport. A firefighter who was killed as he battled the blaze that engulfed the plane has been hailed a hero.

The cause of the crash is not yet known, however Emirates — which has a solid safety record — has ruled out a security breach.

The “miracle” landing has been attributed to Emirates’ training and the engineering of the Boeing 777, including fire resistance and seat design, Bloomberg reports.

The baffling behaviour of its passengers during the evacuation echoes that of people on-board a British Airways flight last year that caught fire before takeoff at Las Vegas airport.

Passengers were criticised for fleeing a burning British Airways flight in Las Vegas with their hand luggage. Picture: Jacob Steinberg

Passengers could be seen exiting the aircraft with all their carry-on bags in tow, drawing the ire of frustrated pilots, who said some people even made time for selfies during emergency evacuations.

“We’re always shaking our head,” Chris Manno, a veteran pilot with a major US airline who criticised those pictured on the Las Vegas tarmac with bulky cabin bags after the incident in September.

“It doesn’t matter what you say, people are going to do what they do.”

Passengers also evacuated a Delta Airlines jet with all their belongings after it nearly skidded off the runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport in March last year. Another set of passengers did the same after an Asiana Airlines jet caught fire after a hard landing in San Francisco in 2013.

“We’re seeing this more and more,” said John Goglia, an aviation safety expert and former member of the National Transportation Safety Board.