An IndiGo passenger bus caught fire at the Chennai airport on Friday, 29 December, in the morning, when it was returning to the airport bay after dropping off passengers. No passengers were present during the time of the incident and there were no casualties or injuries, reported ANI.
The visuals of the bus showed its front part to be badly damaged – with the driver's seat being charred and the windscreen smashed.
Moreover, according to an NDTV report, the cause of the fire has not been established as of yet and the airline has not come out with a statement regarding the incident.
A still of the IndiGo bus that caught fire.
(Photo Courtesy: ANI)
The incident comes just days after there was – what Indigo called – a "fuel tank overflow” on its Delhi-Thiruvananthapuram flight. The airline had denied any "fuel leak" on the flight, and asserted that there was "fuel tank overflow"on its right wing, following which the engines were shut off and the aircraft was towed back to bay at Delhi's Indira Gandhi Airport.
An Indigo statement had said that the fuel overflow on flight 6E-945 from Delhi to Thiruvananthapuram on 26 December was detected by on-board computers.
“As a safety precaution, engines were shut down and aircraft was towed back to bay. 6E-945 operated with an alternate aircraft to avoid any inconvenience to passengers... This is a common occurrence and must not to be confused with a 'fuel leak'. Such overflows can occasionally be noticed during aircraft turns on ground with the fuel tanks full," the airline had said.
The airline had also said that the matter was notified to the aviation regulator DGCA and "is being investigated by the IndiGo Safety department".
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