(Reuters) – A runway at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport, shut after the front landing gear on a Southwest Airlines jet collapsed on touchdown Monday evening, was reopened on Tuesday, though the airport reported delays through the day.

Eight people, including three crew members, suffered minor injuries after the incident, Southwest said.

There had been delays of around 90 minutes on Tuesday morning as result of the incident, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the area’s airports. There were similar delays at the airport on Tuesday afternoon, but they were a result of low clouds, he said.

The airport, one of the busiest in the region, was closed for more than an hour Monday evening after the Southwest Airlines Co. plane, which took off from Nashville, Tennessee, suffered the bumpy landing.

More than 180 flights in and out of the airport were canceled by Tuesday afternoon, according to the FlightStats tracking service.

The hobbled plane, a Boeing Co. 737 with 150 passengers and crew, was towed to a hangar, Coleman said. The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration were investigating the incident.

“We’re launching a full investigation of the LGA landing due to substantial damage to the aircraft,” Kelly Nantel, an NTSB spokeswoman, said in an email.

The NTSB retrieved the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the aircraft and is looking to interview the pilots to determine what happened on the flight, said NTSB spokesman Eric Weiss.

Southwest spokeswoman Whitney Eichinger said the carrier was cooperating with the safety probe but could not predict how long it would take.

The landing gear is made by a unit of United Technologies Corp. Boeing and United Tech officials said they were looking into the incident.

SOURCE REUTERS