A passenger aircraft has landed safely after an alert over problems with its landing gear.

The Eastern Airways aircraft was flying between Norwich and Aberdeen when the alert went out at 3.45pm on Wednesday.

It made a number of passes over the city before its pilot used an emergency back-up system to deploy its landing gear at Aberdeen Airport.

A spokeswoman for Eastern Airways said: "The captain operating flight T3726 from Norwich to Aberdeen received a cockpit warning indication relating to the aircraft's hydraulic system prior to landing in Aberdeen.

"As a precautionary measure the airport's fire service was in attendance, but was later stood down.

"The Jetstream 41 aircraft with 19 passengers and three crew on board landed safely at 3.42pm and passengers disembarked the aircraft as normal via the aircraft steps.

"We have launched an investigation and engineers will be inspecting the aircraft."