On July 23, a passenger plane with nose gear problems landed safely in the afternoon at the Washington Dulles International Airport, in suburban Northern Virginia, after circling over the airport, CNN reported.

The aircraft carrying about 60 people aboard experienced gear problems after takeoff from the airport.

The jet plane, Mesa Flight 7458, belongs to Mesa Airlines, which is operating from Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Mesa Airlines is one of the low cost airline operations of Mesa Air Group, which currently employs more than 5000 people working from locations all across the United States, according to information posted on its Web site.

The company has a fleet of 198 aircraft that perform more than 1200 departures to 170 cities in 46 states, the District of Columbia, the Bahamas and Mexico.