This afternoon, flights from London Heathrow Airport were suspended for an hour, The Sun reported.

Thousands of passengers at the UK's busiest airport have been thrown into chaos as staff battled a refueling system malfunction.

The Jet A-1 system failed shortly before 14:00 local time, and sorties resumed about an hour later.

This meant that a huge number of vacationers were stuck at their gates, while others were forced to wait on board.

A technical problem with the airport's refueling system has now been fixed.