Fire at substation closes Heathrow
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Travel chaos as Heathrow airport closes after blaze at electrical substation
More than 1,300 flights expected to be affected after airport closes down for all of Friday due to a substation firee -
Sitting unaffected on my comfy sofa I can almost hear the words shouted angrily at the next BAA meeting...
"Single point of failure?"Heathrow is rather like a large town employing 75,000 people, who facilitate thousands of daily visitors.
It beggars belief that the busiest airport in Europe running 24-7 had, effectively, no backup generator.
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