All Nippon Airways has confirmed that as one of its new Boeing 787s approached Okayama airport on Sunday morning, an error message showed that the plane’s landing gear had not properly deployed, forcing the pilots to try a second approach using manually lowered landing gear. ANA said that the problem had not occurred during any of the flight tests conducted prior to introducing the jet into domestic service but said that it was a minor malfunction that “occurs frequently on other aircraft”. Following a maintenance review the landing gear was found to have had a problem with a hydraulic valve,

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