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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 ...
Strong winds are continuing to cause some travel disruption in parts of the UK as millions of people travel ahead of Christmas. Heathrow said around 100 flights had been cancelled on Sunday and ...
The disruption at Heathrow was of a similar scale to last Sunday, when high winds caused a reduction in the number of aircraft that could be handled. More than 100 flights were grounded. More than ...
Jonathan Risley and his wife, Janice, spent 25 December in Amsterdam and planned to travel back to the UK on Boxing Day. However, due to weather conditions, three flights home have all been cancelled.
8 April – BOAC Boeing 707-465 G-ARWE sustained an engine fire on take-off from Heathrow Airport. The engine fell off in flight but the fire could not be extinguished. An emergency landing was made at Heathrow, but four people were killed in the subsequent fire.
Disruption is continuing at some of the UK’s busiest airports as thick fog blankets the country. Flights at Stansted airport have been affected by the weather conditions, while live departure ...
Some incidents are wherever possible passed onto the local authority fire service so that the airport crews can return to give fire cover to the runway. Large airport fire services such as that based at Heathrow Airport have sufficient personnel and vehicles to deal with most emergencies on-site, although the LAFRS are called to most incidents ...
British Airways Flight 268 was a regularly scheduled flight from Los Angeles to London Heathrow. On February 20, 2005, the innermost left engine burst into flames triggered by an engine compressor stall almost immediately after takeoff.