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Mr Woldbye said Heathrow realised "during the early hours" of Friday 21 March that "we were losing power to the airport". "In our operations centre you would seen all the red lights go ...

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The data centre ... operations. Instead, on Friday, engineers at the airport had to manually reconfigure switches at another substation to temporarily reroute available power to Heathrow.