Heathrow airport resumes some flights after fire closure leaves thousands stranded worldwide

After being closed for over 15 hours due to a fire at a nearby power substation, Heathrow airport reopened with the first flights landing on Friday evening, leaving hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded worldwide. Counterterrorism police are investigating the blaze that disrupted up to 300,000 passengers and caused chaos for airlines. The airport’s chief executive apologized for the unprecedented loss of power and said a full schedule of flights would resume on Saturday, with lessons to be learned from the incident.

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