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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Megan Howe

Flights to resume at Heathrow airport after day of travel chaos sparked by fire

Flights have resumed at Heathrow Airport as its chief executive apologised to stranded passengers and defended the response to an “unprecedented” loss of power caused by a substation fire.

Thomas Woldbye described the blaze which knocked out an electricity substation in Hayes late on Thursday evening as “as big as it gets for our airport” and that “we cannot guard ourselves 100%”.

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