Hundreds of flights had been canceled after a fire in an electrical transformation station. The anti -terrorist unit of the London police did not identify any element suggesting that the incident “was suspect in nature”.
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London police concluded that the fire causing a vast power failure at Heathrow airport was not of criminal origin. The Met Police anti -terrorist unit found “There is nothing to suggest that the incident was suspect in nature”She said in a statement published Tuesday, March 25, four days after the facts. “Therefore, we no longer consider this affair as potentially criminal.” This unit had been seized to shed light on this incident touching a “essential national infrastructure”.
A fire broke out Thursday evening in an electric transformation station in Hayes, in western London. Heathrow Airport, one of the busiest in the world, had remained closed all day on Friday, due to this power failure. This closure had caused chain disturbances in world air traffic, with hundreds of abolished or confused flights. The police, then, had already explained that they had not detected “of intentional act sign”. The site had become operational again the next day.
The operator of the national electricity network Grid, London firefighters and Southern Electricity Network will continue to investigate the causes of the incident. British Energy Minister Ed Miliband asked National Grid to provide him with his first conclusions within six weeks. The director general of Heathrow, Thomas Woldbye, will be questioned by the deputies on April 2 during an exceptional session in the British Parliament. John Pettigrew, the director general of the National Grid, criticized the decision to close the airport on Monday, saying that it had never lacked electrical capacity.
