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London’s Heathrow Airport closed on Friday after a fire at a nearby electrical substation, resulting in hundreds of flight cancellations.
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Heathrow Airport was warned about the "resilience" of its power supply in the days before a fire which shut down the airport for more than a day last month.
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The National Grid has said it is “deeply sorry” following an electrical fire that led to the catastrophic closure of Heathrow Airport on Friday, leaving thousands stranded.
Heathrow Airport, the busiest airport in Europe, was shut down following a fire at a single electricity sub-station on the night of March 20. The fire at the North Hyde substation in Hayes, about 1.5 miles from Heathrow in west London, seriously disrupted the area’s power supply, including that of the airport.
HEATHROW has blasted a National Grid boss who claimed the airport had “enough power to stay open” following a substation fire. The shutdown of the entire airport on Friday, due to a
The chief executive of National Grid has claimed that Heathrow Airport had enough power from other substations despite Friday's shutdown. Around 1,300 flights were affected after a fire knocked ...
One week after a catastrophic fire at the North Hyde electrical substation plunged the UK’s flagship Heathrow Airport into chaos, questions are mounting