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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Travel
Julia Kollewe

Aviation watchdog to look at ‘resilience’ rules after Heathrow closure

A plane takes off, smoke billowing in the foreground.
The airport was closed last Friday after a fire at the Hayes substation in west London hit electricity supplies. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

Britain’s aviation watchdog will review the rules on “resilience” after Heathrow was closed because of a fire at an electricity substation.

Europe’s largest airport was closed in the early hours of Friday last week after the blaze at the Hayes substation in west London hit electricity supplies. No planes were allowed to take off or land, causing diversions which affected about 1,300 flights and roughly 250,000 passengers. Some flights resumed on Friday evening.

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