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Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We are recording this at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 21st of March.

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Every day, around 230,000 passengers travelled through Heathrow in West London, making it the busiest airport in Europe.

But today, its runways are quiet, with no planes coming or going, after a big fire knocked out the electricity supply nearby. More than 1,300 flights are affected. An aviation consultant

John Strickland says it could be some time before services

return to normal. The way this is going to play out is really a small version of what we saw

with the 9-11 terror attacks way back more than 20 years ago. And while that was a much more

widespread challenge for Heathrow, this is exactly the same because the airport being closed entirely

means many, many long haul flights were already on their way to Heathrow.

And there will be frantic efforts by airline staff to get other aircraft on route,

diverted to other places.

Lucy Adler is stuck at Delhi Airport, back where she started after nine hours in the air.

So I was on a 5am flight out of Delhi,

which was supposed to land at Heathrow for sort of 10am. And literally exactly halfway through,

Captain woke us all up and kind of said, hey, there's been a problem, there's been a fire at Heathrow,

and actually, you know, we're going to need to, and we all thought he was going to say land at a different airport.

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