Heathrow chiefs were warned power supply was airport's 'key weakness'
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Ministers and Heathrow chiefs were warned a decade ago that a ‘key weakness' at the airport was its main electricity supply, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
A report by Jacobs, a major consultancy, highlighted in November 2014 how electricity outages could completely shut Europe's busiest airport.
‘Even a brief interruption to electricity supplies could have a long-lasting impact as systems can take time to recover,' warned the report, which is published on a Government website.
The revelation comes as Heathrow was yesterday branded a a href="https://www.business-opportunities.biz/?s=%98laughing%20stock%27">laughing stock' and its bosses accused of complacency after a fire at a single electricity substation closed the airport for nearly 24 hours.
The blaze at the North Hyde substation in Hayes on Thursday night resulted cheap car service in brooklyn unprecedented scenes, with nearly 1,400 flights cancelled or delayed.
Some 120 transatlantic services were forced to turn round mid-journey and tens of thousands of passengers were stranded across the globe.
A report by Jacobs, a major consultancy, highlighted in November 2014 how electricity outages could completely shut Europe's busiest airport.
‘Even a brief interruption to electricity supplies could have a long-lasting impact as systems can take time to recover,' warned the report, which is published on a Government website.
The revelation comes as Heathrow was yesterday branded a a href="https://www.business-opportunities.biz/?s=%98laughing%20stock%27">laughing stock' and its bosses accused of complacency after a fire at a single electricity substation closed the airport for nearly 24 hours.
The blaze at the North Hyde substation in Hayes on Thursday night resulted cheap car service in brooklyn unprecedented scenes, with nearly 1,400 flights cancelled or delayed.
Some 120 transatlantic services were forced to turn round mid-journey and tens of thousands of passengers were stranded across the globe.
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