A Japan Airlines plane left Shanghai for home Sunday, a day after it hit birds and made an emergency landing, JAL said.

The Boeing 747-400 took off at 8:36 a.m. after engine problems were fixed, carrying no passengers on board.

JAL said the plane, carrying 208 passengers and 14 crew to Tokyo, collided with birds shortly after take-off from Hongqiao airport in Shanghai Saturday afternoon and landed at another airport in Pudong 45 minutes later. No one was injured.

The incident was still being investigated, the northeast branch of China's General Administration of Civil Aviation (CAAC) said.

About 70 passengers took other flights to Japan later Saturday and the rest had arrived at Tokyo by Sunday afternoon.

(Xinhua News Agency March 15, 2009)