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Heathrow airport reopens after plane fire

12 July 2013 21:14 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Runways at London's Heathrow airport reopened late Friday afternoon, about an hour after fire on a plane that forced staff to close the airport, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

The blaze on a parked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet was spotted at about 16:30 local time, or 15:30 GMT. No passengers were on board at the time of the incident, and the plane was parking on a remote parking stand, therefore there were no casualties reported so far.

London Fire Brigade has sent its crews to assist Heathrow staff.

Arrivals and departures were temporarily suspended. The airport advised passengers to check the status of their flights with the airlines before making the journey.

The plane was among the 50 Dreamliners worldwide grounded after malfunctions with their batteries. Flying from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, it was on the first commercial flight since the grounding.