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Passengers at Heathrow, the UK’s busiest airport, face “major disruption” as 800 members of the Unite union prepare to walk out for a week.. Unite is calling out firefighters and staff in ...
Footage has captured a large emergency services presence at Heathrow Airport after a number of passengers reportedly fell ill on a British Airways flight. Firemen with breathing apparatus were ...
[15] He also praised the fire, ambulance, and police services. All flights in and out of Heathrow were halted for a short time after the accident. When operations resumed, many long-haul outbound flights were either delayed or cancelled, and all short-haul flights were cancelled for the rest of the day.
More than 20 flights to and from London Heathrow were cancelled on Friday morning due to air-traffic control “flow restrictions” – reducing the rate at which aircraft can land.
10 June – British Airways Flight 5390, operated by BAC One-Eleven G-BJRT on an international scheduled passenger flight from Birmingham to Málaga, Spain suffered an explosive decompression when a windscreen in the cockpit blew out in flight. An emergency landing was made at Southampton Airport, Hampshire. Two of the 87 people on board were ...
On July 12, 2013, an Ethiopian Airlines 787 battery caught fire while on the ground at London Heathrow Airport having landed 10 hours prior. This fire was different in that it was caused by lithium-manganese batteries used by the emergency locator transmitter located in the upper rear portion of the aircraft's fuselage.
Also, numerous police departments across the U.S. have reported that the outage affected their 911 service and encouraged people to use non-emergency lines if they could not reach 911 directly.
The Boeing 747-400 continued to fly across the United States, Canada, and the Atlantic Ocean with its three remaining engines despite air traffic controllers expecting the pilots to perform the emergency landing at the airport. The flight then made an emergency landing at Manchester Airport, citing insufficient usable fuel to reach London Heathrow.