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Sinkhole shuts runway at LaGuardia Airport, delaying flights, Port Authority warns

Cnbc · · 128 words · By Leslie Josephs
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“A sinkhole at New York's LaGuardia Airport shut down a runway on Wednesday”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that a sinkhole was discovered at LaGuardia Airport on Wednesday, which resulted in the shutdown of a runway.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Huntsville International Airport (IATA: HSV, ICAO: KHSV, FAA LID: HSV) (Carl T. Jones) is a public airport and spaceport ten miles southwest of downtown Huntsville, in Madison County, Alabama, United …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsville_International_Airpo…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of Delta Air Lines accidents and incidents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Delta_Air_Lines_accide…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Chicago Midway International Airport (IATA: MDW, ICAO: KMDW, FAA LID: MDW) is a major commercial airport on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois, located approximately 12 miles (19 km) from the cit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_International_Airport
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“crews identified a sinkhole near Runway 4/22”
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Web search results specifically identify the location of the sinkhole as being near Runway 4/22.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Air Canada Express Flight 8646 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from Montréal–Trudeau International Airport in Quebec, Canada, to LaGuardia Airport in New York, United States. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Express_Flight_8646
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — LaGuardia Airport (IATA: LGA, ICAO: KLGA, FAA LID: LGA), colloquially known as LaGuardia or LGA, is a civil airport in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York City, United States, situated on the northwestern…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaGuardia_Airport
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — LaGuardia Airport has been the site of many aviation accidents and incidents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident…
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“The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey said it was conducting a daily inspection of the airfield earlier Wednesday”
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Multiple sources confirm that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey discovered the sinkhole while conducting a daily morning inspection of the airfield around 11 a.m. on Wednesday.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, or Port Authority Police Department (PAPD), is a law enforcement agency in New York and New Jersey, the duties of which are to protect …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Authority_of_New_York_and…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Port Authority Bus Terminal (colloquially known as the Port Authority and by its acronym PABT) is a bus terminal located in Manhattan in New York City. It is the busiest bus terminal in the world …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Authority_Bus_Terminal
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ or simply the Port Authority; stylized, in logo since 2020, as Port Authority NY NJ) is a joint venture between the U.S. states of New York and Ne…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Authority_of_New_York_and…
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