The “Water Salute” is a usual ceremony in airports. A “Water Salute” that goes To celebrate a special occasion (first/last flight of an aircraft or an airline at an airport ….) fire trucks are waiting on the runway and form an arch over it with their fire hoses. in Dubai

That day, when they were supposed to celebrate the arrival of a Saudia aircraft, things went wrong. The idea was to celebrate the Saudi national day by making a water salute to this aircraft and due to a wrong maneuver one of the jets came to hit the emergency exit, tearing off the door, resulting in the release of the slide. One passenger was injured.