American Airlines passengers evacuates on the wing after the plane has caught fire on Denver Airport
London’s Heathrow Airport has become dark.
After a fire broke out at a power station near UK’s busiest airportThey have closed their doors and runways until at least March 22, which affects over 1,000 flights through the weekend and 200,000 passengers flying to and from Heathrow.
The fire, which broke out at Haye’s electric transformer stations near Heathrow approximately 20:23 GMT, Has mostly contained from the early hours of the morning local London time. But power still have not been restored to Heathrow or others in the neighboring area, per NBC News. (National Grid UK estimated approximately 5,000 customers were affected by the flames.)
As for the immediate air travel effect of Heathrow’s closure, aviation expert John Strickland tOld the British PA News Agency today that it was a ‘content version of 9/11.“
“I remembered that I saw on these occasions – especially more on 9/11 – it happened so fast and then the American airspace was closed, they returned aircraft and held airplanes,” he said. “Heathrow is such a busy airport and full, there is no kind of twisting room to get out of this type of thing.”
