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Burst Water Main At JFK Airport Floods International Terminal

The break in the water main left three inches of standing water in Terminal 4 of the New York airport, which had already experienced dozens of delays from the recent snowstorm.
Passengers with their luggage are seen during the weather-related cancellation at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, United States on Monday. Passengers also had difficulty with their luggage being soaked due to the with flooding that stem from frozen burst pipes in terminal 4 of the Airport.

A break in a water main at New York's JFK airport on Sunday prompted the evacuation of a flooded terminal, causing backups and delays at one of the country's busiest air hubs just as it was trying to get to normal operations after disruptions from

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