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There was a backup generator, but that was also affected by the fire, which gives a sense of how unusual, unprecedented it was,
Mr. Miliband said
We’ve been clear the U.K. needs national resilience standards for our transport, digital, energy and water infrastructure,
said the commission’s chair, John Armitt, in a statementThere are lessons that have got to be learned here,
he told reporters on Friday afternoonI think things will change,
Mr. Gallagher saidBasically, we designed things so that something can fail,
he saidThere are questions to answer. We expect those questions to be answered but our clarity right now is on this incident being appropriately dealt with.”
A No 10 spokesperson said
We’re now stuck in limbo,
Mr Sidwell told The Independent from the couple’s hotel roomWe have flight and cabin crew, as well as aircraft, currently located where they were not meant to be,
said Sean Doyle, chief executive of British Airways, which had 341 scheduled flights into Heathrow on Friday
This (power supply) is a bit of a weak point,
he admittedWe don’t have liabilities in place for incidents like this.”
When asked about financial liability, he stated.jpg)
Tomorrow morning, we expect to be back in full operation, to 100% operation as a normal day,
said Heathrow chief executive Thomas WoldbyeYou would think they would have significant back-up power,
one senior executive from a European airline told ReutersThey have swiftly implemented their resilience plans and have worked closely with emergency responders and airline operators,
she told reportersUnfortunately, it will have a huge impact on all of our customers flying with us over the coming days,
he said
There are questions to answer on how this has happened and what can be done to prevent the scale of disruption we’ve seen from happening again, once the situation is under control.”
Asked about an inquiry and whether National Grid had questions to answer, the prime minister’s official spokesperson addedI'd like to stress that this has been an incident of major severity
Mr Woldbye said
Two substations can run the airport but we need to re-engineer the structure of the power supply for all the terminals and that's what we were doing during the day, and then we have to restart all the systems and that's what we've done, and we now see operation coming back.
He addedWe will be on the ground in three hours and about 24 minutes.
As passengers could be heard groaning at the news, the pilot addedYou can say that but of course contingencies of certain sizes we cannot guard ourselves against 100% and this is one of them
Asked if there is a weak point in Heathrow's power system, he saidAn oil filled transformer has obviously failed and caused the massive fire
Electrical engineer Mr Watters, director of Sanguine Impact Investments, told MailOnline