Flight Attendant Wounded as Haitian Bandits Open Fire on Passenger Plane

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Haiti has become so unstable that bandits are now shooting at commercial flights that try to land or take off there. A Spirit Airlines jet was riddled with bullet holes on Monday as it tried to land at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince. A flight attendant was grazed by a bullet during the attack.

The flight originated in Fort Lauderdale but had to be diverted to make an emergency landing in the Dominican Republic.

“The plane has been taken out of service, and we are arranging for a different aircraft to return our Guests and crew to [Fort Lauderdale] today,” a spokesperson for Spirit Airlines stated. For now, the airline has suspended all flights to Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien until further notice.

All other commercial flights have been grounded at the Port-au-Prince airport for the time being. American Airlines flight 819 made it safely from Port-au-Prince to Miami International Airport on Monday, but flight crews discovered a bullet hold in the fuselage during inspection. Two weeks ago, a United Nations helicopter was shot by bandits in the capital city.

The US Embassy in Haiti says the situation on the ground is dangerous and unstable. Anyone who travels there does so at their own risk because their safety cannot be guaranteed. Kidnappings for ransom and murders have been commonplace ever since the island nation’s government collapsed.

The violence and chaos have not stopped the Biden-Harris regime from plucking up planeloads of Haitians and ferrying them to small towns in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The Haitian migrant crisis rose to prominence during the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, when Trump noted that the Haitians were eating family pets in Springfield, OH.