Air India says flight's power generator catches fire at Delhi airport, grounds for checks
The aircraft's auxillary power unit (APU) caught fire when its passengers were getting off the aircraft, and was automatically shut down, a spokesperson for the airline said in a statement.
APU is an electrical power generator typically located at the rear of an aircraft. Its primary function is to start the main engines and power essential onboard systems while the airplane is parked at the airport.
Passengers "disembarked normally" and are safe but the aircraft, which was flying from Hong Kong, suffered some damage, the airline said. It did not elaborate on the damages caused to the plane.
The impacted flight is an Airbus A321, data from flightradar24 showed.
Air India said it has notified the regulator of the incident. India's aviation regulator was not immediately available for comment.
Air India has come under heightened scrutiny in the aftermath of one of its planes crashing fatally in the western Ahmedabad city in June, which killed 260 people.
An Air India jet veered off the runway as it landed during heavy rain in Mumbai on Monday, and suffered damages on the underside of one of its engines.
(Reporting by Abhijith Ganaparavam in New Delhi, Hritam Mukherjee and Ananta Agarwal in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)
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