Manchester Airport has apologised for cancellations and delays caused by a power cut overnight, which left thousands of passengers stranded. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I'd like to start just by apologising to all the passengers whose journeys have been impacted today.
00:05This morning at 1.30am we had a cable in the ground that faulted.
00:11It then sent a surge of power across the network.
00:15The vast majority of our systems we recovered quickly,
00:17but unfortunately two critical systems to do with our baggage systems screening people's hauled baggage
00:23and our security systems didn't come back up.
00:26And as a result in Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 we weren't able to be able to depart flights until this afternoon.
00:34We were due to have 90,000 passengers flying in and out of this airport today.
00:39And when Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 can't depart passengers for an entire morning there's going to be an impact.
00:45And I'm really sorry that that's happened and we're now working to make sure that as we look forward
00:51that impact doesn't carry on into tomorrow.
00:53We've got aircraft flying now, people taking off, people landing.
00:57All of my team's efforts who've worked incredibly hard and incredibly close with our airline partners
01:02and all the other partners on site.
01:04Everyone's efforts are making sure that as we go into tomorrow we're looking in a much better place.