Ariana Afghan A313 at Delhi on Nov 23rd 2025, landed on wrong runway

Last Update: January 9, 2026 / 17:20:56 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Nov 23, 2025

Classification
Incident

Airline
Ariana Afghan Airlines

Flight number
FG-311

Departure
Kabul, Afghanistan

Destination
Delhi, India

Aircraft Registration
YA-FGF

Aircraft Type
Airbus A310-300

ICAO Type Designator
A313

Airport
Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi

Airport ICAO Code
VIDP

An Ariana Afghan Airlines Airbus A310-300, registration YA-FGF performing flight FG-311 from Kabul (Afghanistan) to Delhi (India), was cleared to land on Delhi's runway 29L, read back their clearance to land on runway 29L but touched down on runway 29R, slowed, vacated the runway and taxied to the apron.

At the time all arriving aircraft before and after landed on runway 29L without a problem.

India's DGCA opened an investigation into the serious incident stating, that the crew of the A313 told them, that they had lost the ILS at 4nm out in poor visibility, the aircraft had turned right, and they were visually landing on the runway visible ahead. The crew remarked ATC had not made them aware of the deviation. The DGCA added, that it was not clear whether aircraft's ILS system had malfunctioned.

On Jan 9th 2026 India's AAIB released their preliminary report stating, that the FDR has been retrieved and is being analysed while the CVR had been overwritten, and summarizing the sequence of events:

On the day of occurrence, Ariana flight AFG311 was operating sector Kabul-Delhi and was designated Runway 29L for landing. The mode of operation in Delhi was Four Runway Westerly where Runway 27 was used for arrivals, RWY 28 for departure, RWY 29R for departure and Runway 29L for arrivals. After initial descend with Delhi area control, AFG311 was released to Approach Control and thereafter, radar vectored for ILS Approach RWY 29L. Subsequently, it was released to Tower by Approach Control for final Approach for landing.

AFG311 reported established on Localizer RWY 29L at 18 NM to touchdown and came into contact of Tower at 10 NM to touchdown on Localizer RWY 29L. Tower Controller instructed AFG311 to continue approach RWY 29L which was read back correctly. At 2NM to touchdown the tower controller gave landing clearance to AFG311 for RWY 29L while AIC2243, was departing from RWY 29R. AFG311 landed on an unassigned RWY 29R at 063622 UTC despite recieving clearance for RWY 29L.

After landing on Runway 29R, the aircraft vacated via Taxiway R and informed Tower on enquiring that they had lost ILS at 4 NM from touchdown and due to poor visibility, were unable to differentiate between Runway RWY29L and RWY29R. As per prevailing mode of operations, RWY 29R was not configured for landings and its approach lights, ILS and PAPI were not switched ON since it was being used in ‘Departure ONLY mode’. The aircraft operated its next flight AFG 312 to Kabul at 1012 UTC from Runway 28 on the same day.

Metars:
VIDP 230730Z 25003KT 1500 R28/1900 R27/2000 R29R/1800 R29L/2000 HZ NSC 24/09 Q1018 NOSIG=
VIDP 230700Z 25003KT 1400 R28/1500 R27/1700 R29R/1900 R29L/2000 HZ NSC 24/10 Q1018 BECMG 1500 HZ=
VIDP 230630Z 28003KT 1200 R28/1400 R27/1500 R29R/1500 R29L/2000 HZ NSC 23/10 Q1019 NOSIG=
VIDP 230600Z VRB02KT 1200 R28/1400 R27/1600 R29R/1400 R29L/2000 HZ NSC 22/10 Q1019 NOSIG=
VIDP 230530Z VRB02KT 1200 R28/1400 R27/1500 R29R/1400 R29L/2000 HZ NSC 21/10 Q1019 NOSIG=
VIDP 230500Z VRB02KT 1200 R28/1400 R27/1400 R29R/1200 R29L/2000 HZ NSC 20/10 Q1020 NOSIG=
VIDP 230430Z 24003KT 1200 R28/1300 R27/1400 R29R/1300 R29L/2000 HZ NSC 18/10 Q1020 NOSIG=
VIDP 230400Z 26003KT 1200 R28/1300 R27/1400 R29R/1300 R29L/2000 HZ NSC 17/11 Q1019 NOSIG=
VIDP 230330Z 24003KT 1100 R28/1300 R27/1400 R29R/1300 R29L/2000 HZ NSC 17/12 Q1019 NOSIG=
VIDP 230300Z 23003KT 0900 R28/1400 R27/1500 R29R/1400 R29L/2000 MIFG NSC 15/20 Q1019 NOSIG=
VIDP 230230Z 24003KT 0900 R28/1400 R27/1600 R29R/1500 R29L/2000 MIFG NSC 13/10 Q1018 NOSIG=
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Nov 23, 2025

Classification
Incident

Airline
Ariana Afghan Airlines

Flight number
FG-311

Departure
Kabul, Afghanistan

Destination
Delhi, India

Aircraft Registration
YA-FGF

Aircraft Type
Airbus A310-300

ICAO Type Designator
A313

Airport
Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi

Airport ICAO Code
VIDP

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