(21 Mar 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mumbai, India – 21 March 2025
1.Wide of airport terminal exterior
2. Mid of Lauren Clark and her friend at the airport with their luggage
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Lauren Clark, passenger:
“ We are stuck in Mumbai at the moment because the plane to Heathrow has been cancelled. Heathrow is shut for the rest of the day till midnight due to a power outage that they have had caused by a fire in one of the areas close to Heathrow terminal.”
4. Passengers walking outside airport terminal
STORYLINE:
Passengers flying from Mumbai to London faced cancellations on Friday after a fire knocked out power to London’s Heathrow Airport, forcing it to close for the day.
Passenger Lauren Clark was one of those affected.
“We are stuck in Mumbai at the moment because the plane to Heathrow has been cancelled," she said.
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have been affected by Heathrow’s closure.
The cause of the fire is not yet known. Heathrow advised passengers not to travel to the airport and to contact their airlines to rebook flights.
The London Fire Brigade had 10 fire engines and around 70 firefighters working to control the blaze hours after flames soared into the sky when a transformer at an electrical substation caught fire in west London late Thursday night.
The fire continued to smoulder after daybreak.
At least 1,350 flights to and from Heathrow were affected already, including several from U.S. cities that were cancelled, flight tracking service FlightRadar 24 said.
Several jets were diverted to Gatwick Airport outside London, Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and Ireland’s Shannon Airport, tracking services showed.
Heathrow is one of the world’s busiest airports for international travel.
It said in a statement it will provide an update on its operations when it has more information on when power will be restored.
AP Video by Rajanish Kakade
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