The runway of Beijing Capital Airport resumed normal operation Thursday afternoon after an Iran Air flight made an emergency landing due to mechanical problems at the airport at 9:33 a.m.

Nobody was hurt of the total 149 passengers and 28 crew members on board the airplane.

The crew on the Boeing 747 plane en route from Beijing to Tokyo detected a malfunction of the hydraulic pressure system in the landing gear eight minutes after taking off from Beijing. As they attempted to make an emergency landing at the airport, the frontal part of the landing gear crashed into the runway.

General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC) officials paid much attention to the accident and aid was carried out by Beijing airport.

(Xinhua News Agency January 16, 2004)