Air India Flight From Hong Kong Catches Fire After Landing at Delhi Airport

All passengers and crew members were safe and disembarked safely from the aircraft, the airline has said.

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All passengers and crew members were safe and disembarked safely from the aircraft, the airline has said.

air india flight from hong kong catches fire after landing at delhi airport

For representation. An Air India flight. Photo: PTI

New Delhi: An Air India flight from Hong Kong – an Airbus A321 – caught fire after landing at Terminal 3 of Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport on Tuesday, July 22. All passengers and crew members were disembarked successfully and there were no reports of injuries.

“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,” the airline said in a statement.

It added that there was some damage to the aircraft, however, passengers and crew members are safe. "The aircraft has been grounded for further investigations and the regulator has been duly notified," Air India stated.

This comes amid an ongoing probe into a tragic plane crash of Air India flight AI 171 in Ahmedabad last month. Earlier today, the airline stated that it has completed precautionary inspections on the locking mechanism of Fuel Control Switch (FCS) on all Boeing 787 and Boeing 737 aircraft in its fleet.

The fuel control switch, which cut off mid-air moments after take-off, appeared to be cause of the crash, as per the preliminary probe report. However, further investigations are underway.

On Monday, too, an Air India flight (AI2744,) operating from Kochi to Mumbai, veered off the runway after touchdown due to heavy rain during landing. However, Air India later stated that the aircraft taxied safely to the gate, and all passengers and crew members were safely disembarked. The aircraft was grounded for checks.

Earlier on Monday, Union civil aviation minister K. Ram Mohan Naidu, in a written reply to the parliament, said that a total of nine show cause notices have been issued to Air India in connection with five identified safety violations in the last six months. However, he also said that the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is “totally unbiased” and was carrying out a definitive and thorough rule-based probe.

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