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Survived crash, hits $1m jackpot

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Published on August 11, 2016 with No Comments

Emirates offers EK521 passengers $7,000

Emirates airline has offered a $7,000 (approximately Dh26,000) compensation to passengers who survived the EK521 fire accident while landing in Dubai last week, reported media from Dubai.

All 300 passengers and crew members aboard the flight from Thiruvananthapuram in the south Indian state of Kerala, India had a narrow escape when the aircraft caught fire in an operational incident on August 3, 2016.  An Emirati firefighter lost his life during the rescue operations at the Dubai International Airport. While Emirates has not issued any official statement about the compensation for the 282 passengers, the daily cited that some passengers have confirmed receiving emails from the airline informing them about a $7,000 compensation per passenger.

 

A 62-year-old Indian, who was on board the Emirates plane that crash-landed , might be the luckiest man alive as he has won a million dollars in lottery, days after miraculously surviving the accident.

Mohammad Basheer Abdul Khadar from Kerala was among the 300 people on board the Emirates flight EK521 that crash-landed and burst into flames at the Dubai airport last Wednesday.

The Dubai expatriate struck gold  when his lucky ticket number 0845 was drawn in the Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire at Concourse A at Dubai International Airport, winning him $1 million (Dirham 3.67 million), media from Guld reported.

Khadar had purchased the ticket on Eid on his way for a vacation with his family in Thiruvananthapuram. “I have been working in Dubai for 37 years, and I have always felt like this is my country. I live a simple life, and now that it’s my time to retire, I feel like God gave me a second life,” Khadar is reported to have said.

 

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