Kelly Review launched following the unprecedented power supply failure caused by the major fire at National Grid and SSEN’s North Hyde substation, which impacted a large area of West London and Heathrow’s operations on 21^st March.

Heathrow Chairman Lord Paul Deighton said: “Closing the airport had significant impacts for our passengers, our customers, our colleagues and the country. Heathrow regrets the disruption this caused. We hope that all those affected understand that the decision was made in order to prioritise the safety of our passengers and colleagues. We are committed to finding any potential learnings from this unprecedented incident.

“To fully understand what happened, I have asked Ruth Kelly, former Secretary of State for Transport and an independent member of Heathrow’s Board, to undertake a review. The Kelly Review will analyse all of the relevant material concerning the robustness and execution of Heathrow’s crisis management plans, the airport’s response during the incident and how the airport recovered the operation with the objective of identifying any improvements that could be made to our future resilience.”

See The Kelly Review terms of reference (127KB PDF)