Britain’s Heathrow defended its decision to shut down operations at Europe’s busiest airport on Friday as the blame game intensified over an 18-hour closure that cost airlines tens of millions of pounds and stranded thousands of passengers.
As questions mounted over how such a critical part of Britain’s infrastructure could fail and whether all Heathrow’s four terminals needed to shut, both National Grid and Heathrow agreed that the failure of the transformer was an unprecedented event.
But the airport was forced to defend its closure after the boss of National Grid told
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