The passengers of a Sunrise Airways airline flight bound for Cuba got the scare of their lives after it was hit by several bullets shortly before taking off from Toussaint Louverture Airport in Port-au-Prince, this after a shooting that took place. occurred on Thursday, February 29, near the air station.
The shooting was the result of a confrontation between armed gangs, something relatively common due to the wave of violence experienced in the Caribbean nation. As a result, the airline suspended its flights from that airport indefinitely.
Haitian airline Sunrise Airways halted flights as violence flared in Haiti, a company spokesperson said on Thursday, adding shootouts near the capital’s airport had put people in danger. #cgtnamerica
— CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) February 29, 2024
According to the media Free Diary, an unknown number of projectiles managed to hit the fuselage of the plane, causing panic among employees and passengers. Fortunately, no injuries or deaths have been reported as a result of this incident.
The road to the air station and the peripheral neighborhoods were the scene of violent armed clashes between the Haitian police and criminal gangs, a situation that has generated concern and seriously affects the operation of the international airport.
The local press points out that the situation is critical throughout the country, not just in the capital. In this sense, gangs of criminals attacked the Faculty of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine of the State University of Haiti (UEH) in Damien. It was vandalized and looted, while a student was shot in the ear.
This escalation in violence comes at a time when the Haitian prime minister is seeking international support for a peace mission in Haiti.
Despite the current situation in the country, and what happened with the shot plane, the Cuban government has not issued any flight alert for its citizens traveling to Haiti to carry out commercial activities.
Likewise, the status of the Cuban workers that the Castro regime has sent on official missions to Haitian territory as doctors, teachers and engineers is unknown.
Sunrise Airways carries out weekly flights from Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti, to Havana, Santiago de Cuba, Holguín and Camagüey, using an Airbus A321 model aircraft that has capacity for 220 passengers. The airline was established in 2010 in Haiti and specializes in charter flights and aircraft leasing.
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