CNN International journalist Richard Quest was at a Guarulhos programmed aircraft on Thursday night (20) to London, where he would land at Heathrow airport when he learned of the fire near his landing site.
“I boarded the plane around 11 pm and we were very quickly informed that things would not be quiet. The captain told us about the fire in Hayes […]”Reported Quest.
Hayes is a city in the London Metropolitan Region, where there is the energy substation that caught fire in the early hours of Friday (21) and caused the closing of Heathrow airport, the largest in the English capital and one of the largest in Europe, causing chaos in global aviation.
According to the journalist, “every half an hour or more, the captain was updating the situation in London; as long as meetings were being held and planes were diverted.”
After hours of waiting, the aircraft captain communicated the passengers that the fuel had been burned with the auxiliary energy unit and there would not be “enough to reach London […]”He continued.
“Finally, at 4 am, he informed us that the flight was canceled and we would be taken by bus. Hotels were being arranged. Immigration in Sao Paulo was quick and direct,” he explained.
Quest said many people were making the same decision, “renting a hotel, leaving the trip, going home or changing direction?”
This content was originally published in an anchor of CNN, which went from Sao Paulo to London, reports flight cancellation on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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