Air India Plane’s APU Catches Fire After Landing in Delhi
Flight AI 315 from Hong Kong grounded post-landing incident; no injuries reported
New Delhi: The auxiliary power unit of an Air India Airbus 321 aircraft flying in from Hong Kong caught fire when passengers were disembarking at the IGI airport on Tuesday afternoon. All passengers and crew members are safe.
The aircraft has been grounded and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) was looking into the incident, a source said.
“Flight AI 315, operating from Hong Kong to Delhi on 22 July 2025, experienced an auxiliary power unit (APU) fire shortly after it had landed and parked at the gate. The incident occurred while passengers had begun disembarking, and the APU was automatically shut down as per system design,” an airline spokesperson said in a statement, PTI reported.
The spokesperson said there was some damage to the aircraft, while passengers and crew members disembarked normally and were safe.
The flight, operated with an Airbus A321 aircraft, landed at 12.12 pm at the airport, as per information available on flight tracking website flightradar24.com.
The incident on Tuesday is at least the third incident involving an Air India plane in two days.
On Monday, a Kolkata-bound Air India plane aborted takeoff due to a technical snag at the Delhi airport and an Air India plane coming from Kochi veered off the runway while landing in heavy rain at the Mumbai airport.
