Sky News and the Guardian confuse Britain’s elite SAS regiment with Scandinavian Airlines in coverage of Heathrow shutdown chaos

They are the band of the British army of most frightening murderers with a history that extends to the Second World War.

The special air service, better known as the SAS, forged their reputation with shocking violent raids in the middle of the night.

But according to Sky News and The Guardian this morning, the regiment runs a busy schedule of flights from Heathrow with the famous motto of 'Who Dares Wins'.

In the coverage of contemporary chaos caused by the closure of the airport after a fire, both stores confused the elite troops with the national airline of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

Scandinavian Airlines system, known as SAS, announced early this morning that it had canceled all 12 of his flights to and from Heathrow.

At 6.58 am The Guardian said on their live blog: 'The special air service or SAS said it too [sic] influenced by the closure of Heathrow. '

And for a few minutes on Sky News, the logo of the winged dagger logo of the SAS was displayed together with text that read: “The special air service says that all 12 of their round trips to and from Heathrow are canceled.”

Although both points of sale quickly corrected the error, it did not escape the notification of users on X, previously known as Twitter.

Sky News confused Scandinavian Airlines with Elite British Army Regiment The Sas today

At 6.58 am The Guardian said on their live blog: 'The special air service or SAS said it too [sic] influenced by the closure of Heathrow '

They wrote: “The Guardian does not know the difference between the SAS (black jump-excited hard men who kill annoying people) and the official airline of Scandinavia.”

Another joke: 'I think someone at @skynews might need some re -education. Although I am sure that @Sas Scandinavian Airlines is flattered. '

A third said: 'In all Heathrow chaos, total respect for @skynews for confusing the airline SAS with the UK Special Forces Unit'.

Above an image of elite troops flying in a helicopter, a fourth wrote: “Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) assembles the rescue mission to restore delayed passengers who were trapped at #Heathrow Terminal 3 '.

Shortly after 7.30 the live blog of the Guardian was updated to tell the readers about the error.

The message was: 'This message was changed at 7.38 am GMT. An earlier version wrongly said that the SAS initialism referred to the “special air service”. '

The announcement of Scandinavian Airlines had read: “All our 12 round trips have so far been canceled to and from London Heathrow because the airport is currently closed.”

More than 1,300 flights to and from the busiest airport of the UK will be hit by the closure of today, which was imposed after a fire in nearby North Hyde Electrical Substation in West London.

The special air service was formed in 1941 by David Stirling

Although both points of sale quickly corrected the error, it did not escape the notification of users on X, previously known as Twitter

Thousands of houses were left without power with more than 100 people evacuated after a transformer caught fire when a huge explosion was heard.

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Some passengers only arrived at Heathrow airport to be rejected, so that many ask for more clarity about the situation.

Others are stranded abroad in the midst of the cancellations.

A transformer in the North Hyde Electrical Substation in West London on fire last night

Parked planes and an empty runway near London Heathrow Terminal 5 today after it was closed

Firefighters will continue to apply the fire of the North Hyde Electricity substation this morning

British Airways advised customers not to travel to Heathrow on Friday.

It said in a statement: “This will clearly have a significant impact on our operation and our customers and we will work as soon as possible to update them in the next 24 hours and then on their travel options.”

Ryanair said that the eight 'rescue flights' organizes between London Stansted and Ireland for passengers affected by the closure.

The airline said in a statement: 'Ryanair will operate four extra flights between Dublin and Stansted on Friday afternoon and four extra flights on Saturday morning.

“These flights can be booked this morning at http://ryanair.com from 9.30 am.”