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The 293 passengers were told "not to rock the plane" in case it toppled after returning to Heathrow.

All were asked to leave the jet "very slowly" following the terrifying ordeal.

The Chicago-bound flight was forced to turn back when the faulty landing gear failed to drop after a "distracted engineer" failed to check it the night before.

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It was 160m away from Keflavik, Iceland when BA crew realised that only three of five sets of landing gears were working.

Incredible footage shows the landing with only the Boeing's nose and body wheels descended.

An official investigation was launched into the terrifying incident of January 20 2016.

A report released this week stated: "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....otherwise the aircraft would tip over and settle on its tail."

It found that the fail was due to a "distraction of the engineer".

The plane skidded the length of the runway before coming to a stop at the end after its braking power was halved as a result of the fault.

Passengers suffered a nine-hour delay before a replacement jet was rolled out.

A British Airways spokesman said: "The aircraft landed safely with its nose and body landing gear functioning correctly.

"Our highly trained pilots practise a range of landings during their regular training.

"We have introduced additional engineering procedure checks and training to ensure this issue does not happen again."

British Airways recently revealed they would scrap booze and snacks from their flights.