Flight AI143 was to depart from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport for Paris at 1.15 pm and reach its destination at 7.15 pm.

A Delhi-Paris Air India flight scheduled for Tuesday was cancelled after mandatory pre-flight checks identified a technical issue, the airline said, adding that a technical team was addressing the matter.

Air India opted to cancel the flight as it was unable to delay the flight owing to night operation restrictions at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport. “Flight AI143 from Delhi to Paris of 17 June has been cancelled. The mandatory pre-flight checks identified an issue which is being presently addressed. However, in view of the flight coming under the restrictions on night operations at Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) airport, the said flight has been cancelled,” an Air India spokesperson said in the statement.