{"id":691274,"date":"2026-01-12T14:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/691274\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:59:18","slug":"birmingham-airport-disruption-caused-by-shropshire-power-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/691274\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Airport disruption caused by Shropshire power cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Disruption to flights at Birmingham Airport overnight was caused by a power cut affecting radar equipment in Shropshire, it has been revealed.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The issue, caused by &#8220;bad weather&#8221; at Titterstone Clee Hill&#8217;s radar station, was resolved at 01:25 GMT, but saw departing flights delayed and arrivals suspended between 21:00 and 00:15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A National Grid spokesperson told the BBC that engineers repaired a fault on an overhead power line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NATS Holdings, which operates the radar system, added that it had since restored the equipment serving Birmingham Airport and that it was now &#8220;operating normally again&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disruption to flights at Birmingham Airport overnight was caused by a power cut affecting radar equipment in Shropshire,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-691274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115882725821839034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}