Maria Florencia, in an article for the BCI, covers Heathrow Airport’s recent power outage and how the incident served to highlight larger systematic vulnerabilities.
The power outage, the result of an electrical fire at a substation, lead to the airport’s sudden closure and the cancellation or diversion of over 1,300 flights, with thousands of passengers left stranded.
Florencia outlines what went wrong, including a lack of redundancies and fragmented contingency planning, before highlighting practical takeaways other resilience professionals could use to inform their future infrastructure resilience planning.
Read on to learn more.
Source: https://www.thebci.org/news/heathrow-power-outage-a-wake-up-call-for-systemic-resilience.html
