A passenger plane from Heathrow to Detroit had to return to the London airport due to a cracked windscreen. Delta Air Lines flight 017 was carrying 188 passengers and 12 crew on board when the pilot reported the fault shortly after taking off at 11:44 BST on Saturday morning. The crew followed procedure by returning...
BBC Thomas Woldbye expressed “his deep regret at not being contactable during the night of the incident”, the review said Attempts to tell Heathrow airport’s sleeping chief executive that the airport had been closed because of a power outage failed because his bedside phone was on silent, an inquiry has found. Thomas Woldbye was in...
The family of one of the three teenagers killed in a crash involving a car and a bus near Heathrow Airport on 31 March, have said they are “completely devastated” at their loss. They have been named by police as 17-year-old Star Tomkins, 18-year-old Harley Woods and 17-year-old Jimmy Savory. Metropolitan Police officers found both...
Tom Espiner and Simon Browning BBC business reporters PA Media Heathrow Airport was warned about the “resilience” of its power supply in the days before a fire which shut down the airport for more than a day last month. The boss of a group representing airlines told a group of MPs on Wednesday that he...
BBC Steve has been trying to get back to London after his flight was diverted to Paris Thousands of passengers have had their travel plans thrown into disarray after Heathrow Airport shut on Friday. Homes near the airport were evacuated and some schools shut after a fire at an electrical substation in Hayes, west London,...
Heathrow Airport is closing all day Friday due to a large fire that broke out at a nearby electrical substation in Hayes, Hillingdon. The airport is experiencing a “significant power outage,” a statement from Heathrow said. “To maintain the safety of our passengers and colleagues, Heathrow will be closed until 23:59 on 21 March,” it...
Heathrow Airport is closing all day Friday because of a large fire at a nearby electrical substation that supplies it. The airport is experiencing a “significant power outage” because of the fire, a statement from Heathrow said. “To maintain the safety of our passengers and colleagues, Heathrow will be closed until 23:59 on 21 March,”...