Planes begin to land at airport but airlines said the closure would continue to have a ‘huge impact’ on passengers in the coming days
Despite criticism from some quarters, the UK transport secretary has defended the airport over the length of its closure, saying the “unprecedented situation” had been “totally outside of Heathrow’s control”.
Heidi Alexander said:
They have stood up their resilience plan swiftly, and they’ve collaborated closely with our emergency responders and the airline operators. They do have backup energy supplies, they have generators, diesel generators.
None of that failed on this occasion because that backup supply is designed to protect the critical key systems within the airport and not to provide power to the whole airport.
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