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A "minor technical snag" was detected in an IndiGo flight from Indore to Bhubaneswar carrying 140 persons, due to which it took off about an hour late from its scheduled time on Monday, the airport officials here said.
Pilots of the IndiGo flight number '6E 6332' noticed a technical snag when the plane was heading towards the runway for take-off, Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport director Vipin Kant Seth told PTI.
The plane was brought back to the apron. After engineers rectified the "minor technical snag", the flight left for its destination, he said.
"Passengers were not de-boarded during the repair work," Seth said, without giving specific details of the technical glitch.
Another airport official said IndiGo's Indore-Bhubaneswar flight was scheduled to take off at 9 am on Monday but could depart at 10.16 am after the necessary repairs.
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There were 140 persons on board the plane, the official said.
The apron is part of an airport where the aircraft are parked, refuelled, maintained and passengers are boarded or de-boarded.
Earlier on Sunday, an IndiGo flight scheduled to depart from Chandigarh to Lucknow was grounded following a technical fault.
The aircraft, operating as flight 6E-146, was scheduled to take off at 7.10 am with 177 passengers onboard. However, as per sources, the aircraft began taxiing from the parking bay towards the runway when the pilot detected a technical glitch.
Responding swiftly, the pilot halted the aircraft and returned it to the parking area. Subsequently, all the passengers were safely deboarded.
PTI
