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00:00would have been a disastrous scenario, which we could not look into.
00:04We could not operate the airport safely quite early in this process.
00:07And that is why we closed the airport.
00:09If we had not done that, we would have had thousands of passengers stranded at the airport,
00:15high risk to personal injury, gridlocked roads around the airport,
00:21because don't forget, 65,000 houses, other institutions were powered down.
00:27Traffic lights didn't work, just to give you an example.
00:30Many things didn't work.
00:31Parts of the civil infrastructure didn't work.
00:33So the risk of having literally tens of thousands of people stranded at the airport
00:39where we would have nowhere to put them, we could not process them,
00:43would have been a disastrous scenario, which we could not look into,
00:47and which, by the way, was also agreed by the alliance on the day.