The fire created delays at the busy London airport
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By
Alice Tomlinson,
Published: 06/08/2026
– 19:50
Updated: 06/08/2026
– 20:00
Heathrow has been hit by flight chaos after a fire erupted causing one of its runways to close.
A grass fire broke out next to one Heathrow’s runways, causing flight delays at the UK’s busiest airport.
Images posted of social media show smoke rising from near one of the airport’s runways.
An account dedicated to Heathrow runway updates wrote on X just before 6pm: “Due to a grass area fire 27L has had to be temporarily closed and therefore we will be 27R single runway operations until further notice.”
Flight departures were suspended as consequence, Aviation News UK said.
Almost an hour later, the Heathrow Runways account wrote on X: “We are now expecting to get runway 27L back at 18:45hrs.
“We’ll be departing on the southern runway 27L and arriving on runway 27R. Sorry for the inconvenience.”
It is understood 18 flights were diverted due to the grass fire.
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