Heathrow power back on as airport warns days of delays for travellers — 205 posts — The True Story

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Britain's Heathrow airport -- Europe's busiest -- shut down early on Friday after a major fire at an electricity substation cut power to the sprawling hub, causing disruption worldwide to hundreds of flights and thousands of travellers.
International Business Times AU
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FEARS are growing that Russia could be behind the devastating fire that brought Britain's busiest airport to a standstill for 24 hours.
The Sun
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More than 1,300 flights and about 200,000 passengers are expected to be impacted by the airport's closure, which saw a record-breaking 83.9 million passengers last year.
NBC News
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Experts were in shock at the scale of the outage, which has not been seen since the Icelandic ash cloud of 2010, as they tried to estimate the cost and breadth of the repercussions caused by a fire at a nearby electrical substation that knocked out the airport's power supply and its back-up power.
Hindustan Times

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