Up to 300,000 passengers who face cancellation with the closure of Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom due to fire

Heathrow Airport in Britain said it will be closed throughout Friday after a large fire at a powerful power plant, which disrupts flight schedules all over the world.

The London Fire Fire brigade said that about 70 firefighters were dealing with the fire in West London, which caused the power out of the electricity in Heathrow, the most crowded in Europe and the fifth airport in the world.

The huge fire and orange tongues of black smoke can be shot as they fire in the sky from the power plant about three kilometers from the airport. The London Fire Brigade said it took about seven hours of firefighters to control the fire. By early morning, the roads surrounding the largest airport in Britain were largely deserted, with the exception of some passengers who walk with their belongings.

“Our firefighters will start their investigation and we will continue to work closely with our partners to reduce the minimum
“The turmoil and the support of society,” the fire brigade said.

The fire, which was reported after 11 pm local time on Thursday, forced the planes to convert airports through Britain
And Europe, while many long trips for the long distance returned to its departure point.

The cause of the fire is unclear

Heathrow said that the airport, which was scheduled to deal with 1,351 flights during the day, shaved up to 291,000 passengers.
Stay closed until midnight, where he was suffering from a great power.

Heathro usually opens flights daily at 6 am due to night flight restrictions.

Tracking services showed that about 120 flights were in the air when the closure was announced, as some were transferred to some flight to Gatwick Airport outside London, Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris or Shannon Airport in Ireland.

The French Air France has eight flights to and from Heathrow, while the Dutch airline KLM said it had canceled three return flights.

British Airways itself had 341 flights to land in Heathrow on Friday.

“It is clear that this will have a great impact on our operation and customers, and we are working as quickly as possible to update their travel options for 24 hours and beyond,” she said.

The cause of the fire was not yet known.

Energy Minister Ed Miliband said that the “catastrophic” fire prevented the energy reserve system from work and that the engineers were working to spread a third backup mechanism.

“With any such accident, we will want to understand the reason for its occurrence, and what if there are lessons for our infrastructure,” he told Sky News.

Flights around the world

Industry experts said that tourism, travel and trade will be disabled all over the world, as flights will be canceled or delayed due to the departure of the aircraft from their location.

“Heathrow is one of the main centers in the world,” said Ian Beachnik, spokesman for Flightradar24. “This will disrupt airlines around the world.”

He forced fire on aircraft to convert around the world.

Travel experts said the turmoil would extend beyond Heathrow.

“Heathrow is one of the main centers in the world,” said Eyan Beachnik, spokesman for Flightradar24. “This will disrupt airlines around the world.”

Airlines networks are carefully dependent on aircraft and crews in specific locations at specific times. Dozens of air transport companies will have to reinstine their networks in a hurry to transport aircraft and crops.

“What will the airlines do to deal with the accumulation of passengers?”. “It will be two chaotic days.”

Qantas Airways sent its flight from Perth to Paris, which is a United flight in New York, heading to Shannon, Ireland and the United Airlines flight from San Francisco was due to the land in Washington, DC instead of London.

Some passengers have turned into social media. Adrian Spender, who works in British retail stores Tesco, said in a post on X that he was on Airbus A380 who was heading to Heathrow.

“#Hethrow has no idea about where we will go yet. Currently over Austria.”

Heathrow, and other major airports in London, have been out of power in the past in recent years, the latest of which is the failure of the automatic gate and the collapse of the air traffic system, both in 2023.

Heathrow had more January crowded in January earlier this year, with more than 6.3 million passengers, an increase of more than five percent over the same period last year. January was the eleventh consecutive month, which has average more than 200,000 passengers per day, as the airport referred to travel across the Atlantic Ocean as a major shareholder.