A Malaysia Airlines flight bound for Bangalore, India, had to turn around after a landing gear malfunction and made an emergency landing at KLIA early this morning.
Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishamuddin Hussein posted from his Twitter account that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH192 made a safe emergency landing at 1.56am and that all passengers and crew were safe.
Flight MH192 took off from KLIA at 10.09pm last night with 159 passengers and seven crew. At 12.40am today, it tweeted that it jad to make its way back to KLIA.
Bernama reports that at 1.35am, MAS stated in a media release that the aircraft’s right landing gear malfunctioned upon takeoff and that the plane was expected to make an emergency landing at around 2am.
“Flight MH192, operated on the B737-800 aircraft, was scheduled to arrive in Bangalore at 11.35 pm the same day (yesterday).
“The flight was carrying a total number of 166 people on board, which included 159 passengers and seven crew members,” MAS said.
This latest incident comes less than two months since the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew from KL to Beijing. It also made a turn back from its intended flight path, but was declared lost with no survivors over a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean, 1,800km off the coast of Perth, Australia.
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