<p>A Bangalore-bound Malaysia Airlines plane with 166 people on board turned back shortly after takeoff tonight due to problem in its landing gear.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Flight MH192 landed safely at Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 1.56am (local time), Malaysia Airlines (MAS) tweeted.<br /><br />"The aircraft's right-hand landing gear malfunctioned upon takeoff and was forced to turn back to Kuala Lumpur," MAS said.<br /><br />"All 159 passengers and 7 crew members on board are being disembarked from the aircraft."<br /><br />The jet, operated on the B737-800 aircraft, departed from Kuala Lumpur at 10.09pm (0721 IST).<br /><br />Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein earlier said on his Twitter feed that a tyre was reported to have burst on takeoff.<br /><br />"They have landed safely -- thank God," he tweeted.<br /><br />The plane was scheduled to arrive in Bangalore at 11.35 pm (local time) the same day.<br /><br />MAS said the flight had departed at 10.09pm (local time) tonight.<br /><br />Hishammuddin is overseeing Malaysia' response to Flight MH370 that crashed in the Indian Ocean with 239 people aboard on March 8.<br /><br />A huge international search-and-rescue effort for any physical evidence of the plane's wreckage, now in its seventh week, had so far proved fruitless.</p>
<p>A Bangalore-bound Malaysia Airlines plane with 166 people on board turned back shortly after takeoff tonight due to problem in its landing gear.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Flight MH192 landed safely at Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 1.56am (local time), Malaysia Airlines (MAS) tweeted.<br /><br />"The aircraft's right-hand landing gear malfunctioned upon takeoff and was forced to turn back to Kuala Lumpur," MAS said.<br /><br />"All 159 passengers and 7 crew members on board are being disembarked from the aircraft."<br /><br />The jet, operated on the B737-800 aircraft, departed from Kuala Lumpur at 10.09pm (0721 IST).<br /><br />Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein earlier said on his Twitter feed that a tyre was reported to have burst on takeoff.<br /><br />"They have landed safely -- thank God," he tweeted.<br /><br />The plane was scheduled to arrive in Bangalore at 11.35 pm (local time) the same day.<br /><br />MAS said the flight had departed at 10.09pm (local time) tonight.<br /><br />Hishammuddin is overseeing Malaysia' response to Flight MH370 that crashed in the Indian Ocean with 239 people aboard on March 8.<br /><br />A huge international search-and-rescue effort for any physical evidence of the plane's wreckage, now in its seventh week, had so far proved fruitless.</p>