Heathrow bosses `warned about substation` days before major power outage, MP committee hears

A fire at an electricity substation in west London meant the power supply was disrupted to Europe's largest airport for a day - causing travel chaos for around 200,000 passengers.

" I'd actually warned Heathrow of concerns that we had with regard to the substations and my concern was resilience ", Mr Wicking said.

" So the first occasion was to team Heathrow director on the 15th of the month of March. And then I also spoke to the chief operating officer and chief customer officer two days before regarding this concern.

" And it was following a number of, a couple of incidents of, unfortunately, theft, of wire and cable around some of the power supply that on one of those occasions, took out the lights on the runway for a period of time. Това явно ме накара да се тормозя. "

Г -н Уикинг също сподели, че има вяра, " пагубно ".

Имаше риск да имаме " безусловно десетки хиляди хора, заседнали на летището, където нямаме къде да ги сложим ", сподели г -н Woldbye.

Тази разчупваща вест се актуализира и ще бъдат оповестени повече детайлности.

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