More than 1,000 flights disrupted at Heathrow airport after nearby fire
Airport operators said the travel hub would be shuttered until midnight on Friday after a fire in an electrical substation knocked out its electricity.
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Airport operators said the travel hub would be shuttered until midnight on Friday after a fire in an electrical substation knocked out its electricity.
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00:00More than 1,000 flights are being disrupted at London's Heathrow Airport, the UK's largest
00:06and one of Europe's busiest, after a fire at an electrical substation caused a power
00:12outage.
00:13According to flight tracking data, at least 1,350 flights will be impacted at the airport.
00:20The London Fire Brigade said 10 fire engines and around 70 firefighters were called to
00:26the scene on Thursday night.
00:27Authorities have urged passengers not to travel to the airport under any circumstances
00:33until it is reopened.
00:35Heathrow has said the closure would last until midnight on Friday.
00:39Officials said the power outage was sparked when a transformer within an electrical substation
00:45in West London caught fire.
00:47Heathrow's airport handles more than 80 million passengers a year and the operator says there
00:53are around 1,300 take-offs and landings each day.