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With the arrest of some 21 people in a foiled liquid bombing attack on British planes bound for US, people are rushing online to see the latest developments and warnings.

Heathrow airport and Gatwick airport websites have to cope with a wave of extra requests for online information and they are simply not doing enough. They've switched to low-bandwidth, text versions of their sites, or redirected to the BAA website, and provided just the essential information.

British police said Thursday they thwarted a terrorist plot, possibly just days away, to blow up U.S.-bound jetliners over the Atlantic and kill thousands. Chilling accounts leaked by investigators described a plan on the scale of 9/11 that would use common electronic devices to detonate liquid explosives concealed in sports drink bottles to bring down as many as 10 planes in a nearly simultaneous strike.

Bandwidth Woes on UK airport websites source