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| Heathrow shut after Boeing Dreamliner 787 fire | |
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| Runways at London's Heathrow airport have closed after a fire on a parked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet. | |
| Arrivals and departures were suspended after the incident at 16:30 BST, a spokesman for the airport said. No passengers were aboard at the time. | |
| Fifty Dreamliners worldwide were grounded in January because of battery malfunctions. | |
| Boeing later modified the jets with new batteries and flight resumed in April. | |
| An Ethiopian Airlines Dreamliner named the Queen of Sheba - the same plane involved in the Heathrow incident - flew from Addis Ababa to Nairobi on the first commercial flight since the grounding. | |
| Pictures of the Heathrow fire on Twitter show an aircraft close to a building and surrounded by fire vehicles. London Fire Brigade said its crews were standing by to assist Heathrow staff. | |
| Fire-retardant foam appeared to have been sprayed at the airliner, but no damage to the aircraft was immediately apparent. | |
| A Heathrow spokesman said: "We can confirm there has been an on-board internal fire involving an Ethiopian Airlines aircraft and the airport's emergency services are in attendance. | |
| "The aircraft was parked on a remote parking stand. There were no passengers on board and there are no reported injuries at this time. | |
| "Arrivals and departures are temporarily suspended while airport fire crews attend to this incident. This is a standard procedure if fire crews are occupied with an incident." | |
| The airport is advising passengers to check the status of their flights with the airlines. | |
| The Metropolitan Police said: "Police at Heathrow were alerted to a fire on a plane. Emergency services are in attendance. | |
| "At this time it is believed no one was on board and there are no reports of any injuries. The fire is being treated as unexplained." | |
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