The incident affected flight operations at the Mumbai airport with flight arriving or departing by an average delay of 30-40 minutes besides score of flights diverted to other airports in view of the runway closure to the stranded aircraft, they said.
Sources, who did not rule out the possibility of the investigation going to the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), said that the preliminary probe report in the incident is likely to be submitted to the top authorities by Monday.
"DGCA has started its probe in the landing gear collapse incident. Prime facie it is a suspected component failure. However, the actual cause would be known only after the preliminary investigations," sources said.
The preliminary report may be submitted to the DGCA by Monday, sources said, adding the "Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, which comes under the Civil Aviation Ministry and has the mandate to probe all serious incidents/accidents, may take over the investigation into the incident."
Recovery operations for the aircraft commenced simultaneously and continued through the night.
As of 1000 hours today the recovery operations was completed and the aircraft shifted to the Jet Airways hangar, the airline said.