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London Heathrow Airport restarts flights after closure causes travel chaos

People wait at the Paddington railway station near a monitor with a notice about a power outage at Heathrow Airport after a fire at a nearby electrical substation wiped out power at the airport in London [Isabel Infantes/Reuters]

Flights at the United Kingdom’s Heathrow Airport have resumed after a fire knocked out its power supply and shut Europe’s busiest airport for the day, throwing the plans of tens of thousands of travellers into chaos.

London’s main airport said late on Friday that its teams had worked tirelessly to reopen after it suffered a power failure due to a fire at an electrical substation supplying the facility.

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