breaking news overnight a massive fire caused a power outage and shut down London’s Heathrow airport one of the busiest airport airports in the world marcus Moore is in London with the latest on that good morning Marcus good morning George eerily quiet here at Heathrow right now not a single plane taking off or landing an absolute nightmare for travelers today with this major airport completely shut down this morning travel chaos for nearly 150,000 travelers after one of the busiest airports in the world abruptly shut down
stop here mate a massive blaze breaking out near London’s Heathrow flames and smoke billowing into the night sky after an electrical substation supplying the airport caught fire dozens of firefighters responding to the scene to battle the flames roughly 1,300 flights take off and land at Heithro every day but the airport is closed until tonight at 11:59 p.m heathro saying in a statement “We expect significant disruption over the coming days and passengers should not travel to the airport under any circumstances until
the airport reopens.” You can see in this flight 24 graphic the moment pilots were alerted some planes turning around mid-flight others diverted to other airports just landed in Shannon and they said that they don’t know what’s happening and we have to sit and wait on the plane and it’s unclear what caused this uh fire but investigators say that there’s no indication that there was any foul play and certainly the ripple effect of this will be felt for days george I met a couple that was walking
down the sidewalk this morning they had several large travel bags they were supposed to fly to New York but they told me the next available flight for them is on Monday George okay Marcus
