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The Met’s Counter Terrorism Command has been working with partners to establish the cause of the fire at the electricity sub-station in Hayes last week (21 March).
A statement from the Met Police read As such, we are no longer treating this as a potentially criminal matter,
I would hope not. But in some of these situations that's the only course once you've gone through everything else."
This episode underlines the urgent need to ensure that our critical infrastructure is safeguarded against both accidental incident and deliberate acts of sabotage by malign actors,
he said in the House of Commons It was created outside the airport and we had to deal with the consequences,
he told presenter Emma Barnett on Saturday This potential lack of resilience at a critical national and international infrastructure site is worrying
Phil Hewitt, director of energy analysis firm Montel Group, said We do not recognise the description of proceedings as set out in the Sunday Times
A Heathrow spokesperson told MailOnline This was an unprecedented issue which began with a fire at an off-airport substation, in less than 24 hours the entire airport was rebooted from a standing start and we delivered a full schedule from Saturday onwards
A Heathrow spokesperson said As the busiest airport in Europe, Heathrow uses as much energy as a small city, therefore it’s not possible to have backup for all of the energy we need to run our operation safely. We had to restructure our power supply and restart all of the systems. That is a major job – even once power was restored, thousands of systems across all of the airport had to be rebooted and tested to ensure they are safe and stable again to use. Safety remains our priority.”
We worked tirelessly throughout the night, and closely with our partners to ensure we could safely open as soon as possible.”
But it’s also not that difficult, because our primary concern is safety. And if we can see we cannot safely operate the airfield, and guarantee passenger safety and [the safety of] colleagues and aircraft, then the decision to close is not that difficult.”
The business accepts that absolute operational, system and infrastructure resilience is impossible,
it starts, adding vaguely There was no lack of capacity from the substations,
I don’t have all the information that they had available when they made the decision.”
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander declined to back Heathrow management’s decision-making, saying Safety should always be paramount, but, as I say, it was not my decision,
Hundreds of critical systems across the airport were required to be safely powered down and then safely and systematically rebooted,
a Heathrow spokesperson said It’s really important that we do learn the lessons from this, and that’s why I think those two reviews… are going to be really critical,
Transport Minister Heidi Alexander told Sky News on Monday Two substations were always available for the distribution network companies and Heathrow to take power,
I'm not going to justify decisions that Heathrow leadership did or didn't take."
Asked on Monday about the way airport bosses handled the events, transport secretary Heidi Alexander said It would not have been possible for Heathrow to operate uninterrupted,
the airport said in an emailed statement
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