Airlines warned Heathrow about power supply ‘resilience’ ahead of blaze

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Airlines warned of his power supply elasticity before the electricity was divided into the airport that the UK’s busiest airport was closed and the members of parliament had heard of parliament.

Heathro After a lot of fire in the electricity substation near March 21, the airport stopped after the airport was cut off, causing more than 1,300 flights to be canceled. The airport has not fully opened again for more than 24 hours.

On Wednesday, the Transport Select Committee told the committee, “I actually warned us about our concerns about the substations of Heathrow, my anxiety was elasticity.”

Wucking told MPS that “on March 8, he first raised concerns,” “a power supply around him and some of the cable stolen events that once took a runway for a period”.

Heathrow’s chief executive, Thomas Oldbie Airlines and apologies to disrupt passengers. “The situation was unprecedented and we recognized the anxiety and inconvenience we had created it,” he said.

OldBai emphasized that there was no other way to close the airport’s security fields, but said that the airport would review some of the terminals more quickly.

He added, “I am absolutely committed to make sure we learned from it.”

The National Grid, which operates the UK’s high-voltage transmission network, says that electricity was always available from the surrounding substations to the airport, which was not affected by burning.

Oldbie said the delay in re -opening the airport was to configure its power supply from two other substations to Heathrow’s engineers, which took about 10 hours, saying Oldbyi.

He emphasized that Heathrow “a resident set up agreement”, which includes “backup transformers [and] Parallel lines from three separate substations to the airport. “

“There is a question about where the elasticity should be,” he added.