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London's Heathrow Airport announces complete shutdown due to power outage

London’s Heathrow Airport has been brought to a complete standstill by a “significant power outage,” setting off waves of global travel chaos from one of the world’s busiest transit hubs.

London’s Heathrow Airport has been brought to a complete standstill by a “significant power outage,” setting off waves of global travel chaos from one of the world’s busiest transit hubs. Friday’s shutdown was caused by a fire in an electrical substation in the town of Hayes, just a few miles from the airport, which disrupted the local power supply, throwing more than 1,000 flights into disarray and forcing pilots to divert their journeys in midair. “As of the most recent update that I have received, approximately 10% remains alight” of the “high voltage substation,” LFB Deputy Commissioner Jonathan Smith also said in a news conference Friday morning.

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