The AI 9813 flight was originally scheduled to take off at 9.45 AM but was delayed due to bad weather at destination and rescheduled at 12.30 PM.
When the ATR Turboprop plane was being pushed back for taxiway, "pilots experienced some problem with its engine and decided to return to bay for necessary check and rectification of fault, as Dharamshala being the hilly terrain, the pilots didn't want to take risk," an Air India spokesperson said.
The fault was checked and rectified and the plane finally took off for Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh after an hour at 1.35 PM, the spokesperson said.