Major disruption as Heathrow closed all day after nearby fire causes power outage

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• blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  A part of me wonders if this was a genuine failure or sabotage.

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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    “We heard this substation was the tallest in Britain. We were visiting it as tourists.”

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  • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Part of the Metropolitan police too it would seem given that they’ve brought in counter terrorism officers

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• Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s going to be chaos for at least a week, (assuming they get power back today!)

  Shouldn’t an airport that big have redundant power feeds?

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  • DavidGA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It does. That failed too. They don’t know why yet. It’s too early to bother speculating.

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• Mex@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I for one am glad I am not flying anywhere this week.

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