First glitch for ANA's Dreamliner at Japan airport

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An All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner carrying 249 people had to make a second approach at a west Japan airport before landing, after a glitch forced the pilot to manually deploy the main landing gear, the airline said Monday.

The first glitch on a commercial flight for the new plane occurred on a domestic route on Sunday after a cockpit monitor showed that the landing gear had not fully deployed shortly before landing, ANA said.

As flight 651 from Tokyo's Haneda airport approached Okayama airport in western Japan, the monitor issued a warning that the main landing gear had not deployed due to a hydraulic valve fault, an ANA spokeswoman said.

The glitch forced the pilot to circle the airport and manually deploy the main landing gear, ANA said.

"The plane went around again as the pilot manually lowered the landing gear," she said. The jet carrying 249 passengers and crew touched down with no problem afterwards, she said.

The 787 made its first commercial flight from Tokyo to Hong Kong on October 26.

The glitch comes less than a week after a Boeing 767-300 with 220 passengers on board made an emergency landing on its belly at Warsaw international airport after its landing gear failed. All passengers and crew safely disembarked.

ANA, the launch carrier for the Dreamliner, launched its first domestic services with the jet one week ago.