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Al Jazeera Staff

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Heathrow shutdown what happened which flights have been disrupted - What They Never Told You

A British Airways passenger plane flies over a road direction sign as it makes its landing approach to Heathrow airport in west London, Britain [File: Toby Melville/Reuters]

A loss of power forced London’s Heathrow airport, one of the world’s busiest, to shut down on Friday morning, prompting chaos and disrupting travel for tens of thousands of air passengers.

In a post on social media website X, the airport blamed a fire at an electrical substation in North Hyde in Hayes, west London, for the power outage and said it did not expect to reopen until early on Saturday.

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