The UPS flight took off and then declared a full emergency minutes later due to a cockpit fire.... The emergency services were deployed at OMDB but we cancelled a few minutes later (possibly because the pilot decided to go for the military base instead)??
Friends in DSO say the plane was dumping fuel constantly as it tried to make it back. His shirt and garden stink of Jet A1... Nearly took out the last set of villas on the Al Ain road side... then crashed. It could have (possibly) crashed into the small set of villas between the 311 and 611 as it tried to make the air base landing field.
Hope the crew got out ok. Damn!!!
Last edited by Desert Dawg; 3rd September 2010 at 18:04.