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Flights forced to return to India, the Caribbean and the US as Heathrow shutdown triggers worldwide travel chaos with more than 200,000 passengers left stranded in airports

London 's biggest terminals - which facilitates upwards of 200,000 travelers a day - were forced to shut down on Friday after a fire at a nearby substation caused a major power outage.

Richard Tice claims Heathrow shutdown after substation fire was 'caused by airport getting rid of its diesel back-up for Net Zero alternative'

One industry source told the Reform MP that Net Zero is to blame because Heathrow is moving from diesel back-up generators to biomass and the system failed when the substation went up in flames.

'What a mess': Incredulous US anchors from Fox News and CNN ridicule Britain amid Heathrow chaos and ask 'how did single substation take out such a critical airport'?

Fox and Friends host Ainsley Earhardt said from: 'What a mess, Friday and Spring Break.' And reporter Greg Palkot, on the ground at Heathrow, replied: 'You got it right, what a mess is correct.'

'Very old' transformer failed and started Heathrow substation fire, expert claims, as hundreds of thousands are left stranded... amid incredulity that small blaze caused global chaos

Tom Watters, director of Sanguine Impact Investments, told MailOnline the crucial substation powering Heathrow contains 'very old' equipment and blamed a 'lack of investment'.

Sky News and the Guardian confuse Britain's elite SAS regiment with Scandinavian Airlines in coverage of Heathrow shutdown chaos

In coverage of today's chaos caused by a fire, both outlets confused the elite troops with the national airline of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

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