Emergency services struggle to reach the scenes due to the clogged roads, and have to resort to using minor roads. Due to the proximity of Heathrow to the crash site, the airport's fire services are sent out to assist in the rescue efforts, but this in turn forces the airport to close, with incoming flights being diverted elsewhere, and all flights out of all UK airports are grounded after UK airspace is shut down. Jane Newell, Jerry Newell's husband, gets home to Shepperton several hours after Jerry left her car to walk to the airport, and finds news of the disaster on the television. She begins to worry and repeatedly phones anyone at all at the airport to find information about whether her husband was okay. She finds that the flight involved in the disaster was to Bilbao and is calmed. However she then receives a phone call from British Airways, telling her that Jerry's flight to Toulouse was cancelled; he instead had been called in to captain the flight to Bilbao, and was killed in the crash. Save for Julian, whose decision to return to the motorway to ensure his car wasn't taken away saved his life, the entirety of the Galt family have also died, having been allowed to board the plane as it had been delayed for an hour at the time of their arrival, a funeral for the passengers crew and ground people is held next morning.