It remains unclear how a single fire could lead to the shutdown of the entire Heathrow Airport, travel journalist Simon Cader says.
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00:00Simon, airlines are really questioning how such crucial infrastructure could fail.
00:06Do we know any more about how this might have happened?
00:10Well, look, it's very, very difficult to say why there was an apparent single point of failure in the electricity supply.
00:19Of course, Heathrow, being such a huge airport, is rather like a small city in terms of the amount of power that it draws from the electricity grid.
00:29But one would have imagined that there would be many ways of routing electricity into the airport without having to shut down everything.
00:40Initially, we were told that this was going to be going on for another seven hours until midnight UK time.
00:51It's good to see that that hasn't happened.