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The National Grid CEO John Pettigrew said Heathrow Airport had enough power to avoid Friday's shutdown, but the airport has hit back saying it was an 'unprecedented incident'

The National Grid has said it is “deeply sorry” following an electrical fire that led to the catastrophic closure of Heathrow Airport on Friday, leaving thousands stranded.

John Pettigrew, the CEO of National Grid, has claimed that Heathrow had access to two additional substations with “enough power” to keep operations running.

Britain's National Grid said on Friday the network of the North Hyde substation, in west London, has been reconfigured to restore power to the parts of Heathrow Airport connected to it on an interim basis.

HEATHROW has blasted a National Grid boss who claimed the airport had “enough power to stay open” following a substation fire. The shutdown of the entire airport on Friday, due to a

Britain’s Heathrow defended its decision to shut down operations at Europe’s busiest airport on Friday as the blame game intensified over an 18-hour closure that cost airlines tens of millions of pounds and stranded thousands of passengers.

National Grid chief executive John Pettigrew said it was a 'question for Heathrow' why operations were shut down for almost 24 hours.