THE one-day shutdown of London’s Heathrow airport on March 21 affected more than 1,300 flights, turning life upside down for thousands of people who had never thought that the world’s fifth busiest airport could be semi-paralysed by a single electrical substation fire.
Some aircraft were turned back to their starting point, while others were diverted to nearby airports such as those in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris, and Dublin, as well as those in England such as Manchester, Gatwick, Stansted, and Luton, to name a few.
