London (AP) — Hundreds of flights to London’s Hesro Airport have been canceled at Hesro Airport, after a fire at a sub-point station poured electricity on Europe’s busiest airport, which disrupted flight plans to hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
A day after chaos, Hesro began to open in the evening. The first plane of the day landed at around 6 pm local time. It was only the beginning of what is expected to be a few days to deliver trapped passengers to the destination and flight flight to the right place.
What happened here and its effects on flights.
what happened?
A fire at a power plant in western London, about 3 kilometers from the airport, shooked electricity to Hesro airport late Thursday.
“Signity power outages” initially forced officials to announce that the airport will be closed until 11:59 pm “to protect the safety of our passengers and our colleagues. Until late afternoon, the airport said teams “worked tirelessly” to restore services, allowing flying operations to resume on Friday evening.
The airport said the first was to start transporting aircraft to be in the right place to resume normal services.
The London Fire Brigade said 10 firefighters and 70 firefighters responded to a fire at the secondary station discussed on Thursday at 11:23 pm on Thursday. The fire department said the fire was controlled but the firefighters would stay at the scene throughout Friday.
British Energy Secretary Ed Miliban said the fire generator and a power plant that provides electricity to Hesro Airport is likely.
The National Network, which protects the UK’s energy infrastructure, said the fire at the substation damaged the fire and teams have worked to quickly restore the power power. The authorities had been returned to local society early afternoon.
What caused the fire?
Officials said there was no proposal to play ugly, but the reason was still under investigation.
Even in this way, police services in London said counter-terrorism investigations were leading the investigation because of the effects of the fire on important national infrastructure.
“Obviously an unprecedented incident,” Miliband told Sky News. “Obviously, with any incident like this, we want to understand why it happened and if there is any lesson for our infrastructure,” he said.
How was Hesro influenced?
The closure of this work disrupted travel plans for about 200,000 people expected to travel through Hecero on Friday. Hesro advised passengers not to travel to the airport and contact their airlines to reserve flights.
With the cancellation of all escapes and landings, the first impact was dozens of flights far from North America and Asia that were in the sky when the airport was closed. Some were forced to return around, while others were removed to airports around Britain and Europe.
Hesro planes landed at the Amsterdam Airport; Shannon Airport in West Ireland; Glasgow, Scotland; Manchester, England; Charles de Goal in Paris; Lyon, France; and Frankfurt, Germany, among others.
The impact on short trips was delayed until Friday morning because the flight operation in Hecero between 11 pm and 6 am every day is severely limited to reducing night noise in surrounding communities. Thousands of people could not even travel to airports around Europe and Britain on Friday.
According to Anita Mendrata, a pilot and leadership adviser, about 4,000 tons of loaded loads, according to Anita Mendrata, aviation adviser and leadership.
How long will the damage remain?
The interruption is expected to take several days, as airlines will move aircraft and flight teams to their homes and work to stabilize passengers whose flights have been cancelled. Mendrata estimates that it would take two to four days to cleanse all the savings.
“This is an extreme situation where the entire aviation ecosystem is affected,” he said.
“There will be two things that happen as priorities number 1, the first is to work and understand the airport, from the perspective of the electrical system, what has been affected, if there is something,” he said. “For example, anything was short? What should be reactivated? and then how to turn on the airport in a sentence manner?
“There is a question of managing the human structure. You have passengers that are affected, teams are affected and the operations are, so they are able to reshape everything,” he said.
What’s the bigger picture here?
Analysts say the fire raises concerns about Britain’s ability to tolerate attacks or natural disasters that damage important infrastructures such as communications and electricity networks.
Alan Mendossa, CEO of Henry Jackson, a security and democracy, said the incident was particularly concerned about the recent British security services, which Russia is conducting an indifferent campaign in destruction across Europe.
“British national infrastructure is not stubborn to anywhere near the level it needs to be confidence that this will not happen again,” he said. “I mean, if a fire can close the main system of Hecero… it tells you that something is wrong is wrong in the system of managing such disasters.
Robin Potter, a resistant expert at the London-based Birt Chatam, said successive governments were slow to respond to several proposals from the National Infrastructure Commission to strengthen the power of power, communications, transportation and water by the UK to endure big shock.
“We have not yet seen a clear response from the government to these proposals,” he said. “And we hope that in the continuous review of the government’s resistance, which we expect to be published this year this year, it may try to raise some of these questions.
Mendozla said that the goal should be to have a savings system that can be rapidly designed to reduce the deterioration caused by any incident in the name of blacks – or unpredictable.
“The reality is that there are always issues that confuse you – Black Queen, as if,” he said. “The key is not necessarily that it is forced to predict blackheads, because in many cases they are unpredictable, but it is related to the existence of resistance and the type of sword of the system so that it can return to work very quickly.
How big hecero is?
Hesro was the busiest airport in Europe last year with 83.6 million passengers. Closing will be a long-term effect because it is a major center for connecting flights to cities around the UK and the world, as well as to travel to London.
Does London have other airports?
Yes. Five other airlines in southeastern England identify themselves as London airports, but are much smaller than Hesro. London Gatweck, Britain’s second-largest airport, was imposed 43.2 million on board last year. It is located 28 miles (45 kilometers) south of London.