How a fire shut down Europe's busiest airport

一场大火如何关闭了欧洲最繁忙的机场

World Business Report

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2025-03-22

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Europe's busiest airport, Heathrow, says it will be closed all day because of a fire at an electrical substation. Thousands of people and global flights have been affected. So how has such a major transport hub failed? Andrew Peach speaks to an expert in emergency planning.
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  • Foreign.

  • Hello, I'm Nick Marsh with the BBC Business updates.

  • London's Heathrow Airport will be closed throughout Friday over what's been described as a significant power outage linked to a fire at a nearby electrical substation that supplies it.

  • The airport, which is Europe's busiest,

  • has warned of significant disruption over the coming days and told passengers not to travel under any circumstances until it reopens.

  • Dozens of flights have had to turn back or be diverted to other airports in the UK and elsewhere.

  • Our correspondent Charlotte Gallagher is at Heathrow Airport.

  • You can actually smell the smoke in the air around the airport.

  • So it obviously was a huge fire.

  • People aren't going to be where they're supposed to be.

  • The crews are not going to be at the airports.

  • They need to be.

  • People have got lucky.

  • Some of them, they've been diverted to Gatwick, for example,

  • but others are going to find themselves in Paris, in Shannon, in Ireland.

  • That's where some people have been diverted to.

  • And of course, when the airport does open,

  • there's going to be this huge backlog of passengers that want to go on their holidays.

  • NBA champions the Boston Celtics are being sold to the head of a California private equity firm for $6.1 billion,

  • which is a record price for a US sports franchise.