A British Airways Boeing 747-400, registration G-CIVX performing flight BA-295 from London Heathrow, EN (UK) to Chicago O'Hare, IL (U.S.), was enroute at FL330 about 160nm south of Keflavik (Iceland) when the crew decided to return to London's Heathrow Airport due to a technical problem. On approach to Heathrow the crew dumped fuel, lowered the gear very early, subsequently reported an unsafe gear indication for both main gear, only nose and body gear had extended. The aircraft positioned for a 15nm final to Heathrow's runway 27R and landed safely on nose and body gear only and stopped on the runway about 20 minutes after reporting the unsafe gear.

The airport reported the runway was unavailable for about one hour until the aircraft was secured and towed off the runway.

Passengers reported the crew advised they were returning to London due to a technical problem, about 20 minutes prior to landing the crew announced that the landing gear did not fully extend with only three of five sets of gear having lowered. After the aircraft was towed to the apron, passengers were told to disembark very slowly, aft cabin first, otherwise the aircraft would tip over and settle on its tail.

The aircraft had last flown on Jan. 24, 2016, then remained on the ground in Heathrow and was doing its first flight since.

A replacement Boeing 747-400 registration G-CIVI is about to depart Heathrow estimated to reach Chicago with a delay of 10 hours.