FAA Investigates Why JFK Airport Was Crippled by Snowstorm

  • Port Authority promises full cooperation in the inquiry
  • Scores of flights were canceled, leaving passengers stranded

Airplanes wait at the gates outside terminal five at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Jan. 4, 2018.

Photographer: Rebecca Butala How/Getty Images
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The U.S. government has opened an investigation into snow removal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport following a storm earlier this month that snarled scores of flights.

The Federal Aviation Administration is probing the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s actions during the storm Jan. 4-5, the agency said Tuesday in an emailed statement.