Metropolitan Police closes ‘criminal’ probe into substation fire that closed Heathrow airport

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London’s Metropolitan Police is no longer treating any substation fire that causes Heathrow Airport to be “possible criminal matter” after investigating the Heathrow Airport as an anti -terrorist officials.

The force said on Tuesday that there was no evidence of evidence to suggest the incident. Anti -terrorist officers on Friday launched a fire at the North Hyde Substation in West London.

The busiest airport in Europe has been criticized for the decision to close about 24 hours, though it was still able to take power from other parts of the grid.

Due to the closure, more than 1.5 flights were canceled, influenced thousands of passengers and it was expected to spend several million pounds for aircraft companies.

Heathro And the National Grid Airport’s response to the airport has spread, as the length of the airlines and the shutdown increases the public anger.

John Petigru, CEO of the National Grid, Tells the Financial Times The North Hyde site, which was offline on Sunday, was available to Heathrow from two other substations in the region.

Petigru was supposed to remove the fault at the Airport for failure to switch quickly to the remaining substations, why it was the step that it took to “Heathrow”.

Heathrow’s Chief Executive Thomas Oldbyi, already pointing to the power industry, told the BBC that the airport needs to be evaluated if it is working in our surrounding grid “we cannot believe that we cannot believe.

Earlier on Tuesday, the energy minister Michael Shaanks put further pressure on Heathrow, suggesting that “significant unnecessary” was created in the power infrastructure around the airport.

“Local network operators and national grids were able to … to find an effectiveness to connect all the families within a few hours,” he told members of parliament.

“We need to see the elasticity of the outer network connecting to Heathrow, but the personal networks contained in Heathrow need to review them.”