A troubled Malaysia Airlines Flight bound for Bangalore with 166 passengers landed safely in Kuala Lumpur early on Monday after it aborted its flight and headed back to Malaysia due to a landing gear problem.

Flight MH192 landed safely at KLIA at 1:56 am, Malaysia Airlines tweeted soon after the successful emergency landing.

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"All landed safely - going there now!!" Malaysia's Defense and Transport chief Hishammuddin Hussein also tweeted.

A male passenger told the Straits Times after coming out of the plane that he was happy to be alive.

He said they heard three loud thuds just as the shaking plane was taking off and that oxygen masks began to drop.

People were praying quietly and no one panicked, he added.

The airline announced earlier that the plane's right landing gear malfunctioned during takeoff and will have to turn back to the Kuala Lumpur airport.

A live air traffic website showed Flight MH192, a Boeing 737-800, circling the Kuala Lumpur airport as it prepared for the successful emergency landing.

The media and the rest of the world had their eyes riveted on the MH192's reported troubles following the tragic fate of the Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 which disappeared on March 8 and remains missing to this day.