A pothole measuring 8 feet by 2 feet appeared on Runway 13-31 at LaGuardia Airport yesterday, leaving just one open runway and bottlenecking departing and arriving flights for over an hour.
Around 3 p.m., a pilot on a departing flight from LGA reported the damage. On air traffic control recordings, the pilot is heard telling the controller, “There’s a bunch of debris on the runway, just off the right side of the aircraft … It looks like a piece of concrete off the number three on the runway, the number completely blown off.”
