STANDARD Chartered Bank managing director Mizinga Melu has relived the
horrendous experience of being on Emirates Airline, Flight EK 714 which
caught fire 30 minutes after take-off from the Kenneth Kaunda
International Airport in Lusaka on Sunday night.
Mrs Melu, who is also Zambia Daily Mail board chairperson, narrated the hair-raising experience of over 135 passengers and 15 crew members.
“We could have died…Thank God we are alive,” the shaken Mrs Melu said.
According to Mrs Melu, all seemed well until 30 minutes in the air when “we heard a bang…it was so loud and suddenly the plane started shaking…Thank God we are alive…I’m traumatised.”
Mrs Melu was flying to America through Dubai.
Emirates country manager Khalid Ali Hassan said flight EK 714, which was flying at an altitude of 34,000 feet above sea level, returned safely to Lusaka after an engine failure.
The Airbus 330-200 carrying 135 passengers took off from KK International Airport around 23:00 hours.
Mr Hassan said Emirates engineers from the Dubai head office were scheduled to arrive in the country yesterday to establish the cause of the fire.
Zambia Daily Mail
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