An Airbus A320Neo belonging to IndiGo airline had to return to bay while taxiing for take-off on Wednesday.
Flight 6E 979, scheduled to take off from Udaipur airport at 1.10pm, was preparing for take-off when the local Air Traffic Control (ATC) detected smoke and alerted the pilot.
While no fire and smoke was reported by the cockpit crew, the airline’s engineers conducted a ground inspection and found that the smoke came from the auxiliary power unit (APU) of the Neo aircraft. An APU is a device on an aircraft that provides energy and electricity for functions other than propulsion.
