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Heathro is the largest airport in Britain. Every day about 1,300 plane takeoff and landing here.
Heathro Airport in London, the British capital, opened after 18 hours. British Airways flight landed here. In fact, an electrical substation near the airport caught fire on Thursday night. Due to which the operation of the airport had to be stopped.
1350 flights were suspended due to the bandh, which affected 2 lakh 91 thousand passengers. The fire was in Hayes in West London. Due to this, electricity of more than 5 thousand houses was lost.
The UK counter terrorism police is investigating the case. The police is trying to find out whether there was any wrong intention behind the fire on the substation.
Pictures of fire in electrical substation …
A fire broke out in the electrical substation at Hayes of West London at around 11 am on Thursday night.
The London Fire Brigade along with 70 fire fighters was mostly controlled by the fire till Friday morning.
Due to the fire, all the operations at Heathro Airport were closed till 12 pm on Friday night.
6 Air India flights from India to London have also been canceled. The picture is from Delhi Airport.
Passengers in Canada were about to travel to London from Toronto, but their flight was canceled.
A person waiting at Fumicino Airport in Rome after the flight to London was canceled.
Major airlines whose flights were canceled …
Flights were stalled in all the airports in Germany 10 days ago.
On March 9, a day -long strike was called by employees of all airports in Germany. Due to this, the air travel of the entire country came to a standstill on Monday (Indian time). The strike canceled 3400 flights at 13 major airports across the country, including major airports such as Frankfurt and Munich. Due to this, more than 5 lakh passengers were affected.
Verdi Union with 25 lakh government employees of the country announced this strike demanding to increase salary. According to the time of Germany, the strike was to start from March 10, but it was started a day before the scheduled time.
Due to the strike, the ticket counters of the airports appeared empty. The picture is from Hamburg Airport, Germany.
