A Malaysia Airlines passenger plane with 166 people on board was forced to make an emergency landing after its landing gear malfunctioned.
Flight MH192 - run by the same airline whose MH370 disappeared without a trace last month - took off from Kuala Lumpur, but soon reported the equipment failure.
The Boeing 737, which was headed for Bangalore in Indian, was then turned around and brought back in to land at Kuala Lumpur airport in the early hours of Monday morning, the airline said.
Problems: The Boeing 737 was forced to make the emergency landing after reporting a landing gear failure shortly after take-off (file photo)
Defence Minister and Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said in a tweet: 'All landed safely - going there now!!'
The problem was with the right-hand landing gear of the Boeing 737-800 aircraft, a spokesman for Malaysia Airlines said.
Fire rescue services had been placed on standby in case the manoeuvre went wrong.
Hunt: The disappearance last month of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has prompted a multinational search effort, which is now focused on the Indian Ocean
The malfunction came as search teams were still scouring the Indian Ocean near Australia for any trace of a missing Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777.
Flight MH370, bound from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in China, disappeared in unexplained circumstances with 239 on board.
Despite a multinational search effort, no physical sign of the plane has yet been found.
Investigators currently believe the plane came down over the Indian Ocean off the southern coast of Australia, and are scouring the waters with a submarine.
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