{"id":107818,"date":"2024-11-13T00:03:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T00:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/faa-bans-us-flights-to-haiti-for-30-days-after-planes-struck-by-gunfire\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T00:03:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T00:03:25","slug":"faa-bans-us-flights-to-haiti-for-30-days-after-planes-struck-by-gunfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/faa-bans-us-flights-to-haiti-for-30-days-after-planes-struck-by-gunfire\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA bans US flights to Haiti for 30 days after planes struck by gunfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-12\/News_airplanespirit_111124.png\" alt><figcaption>Kevin Carter\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; The Federal Aviation Administration has banned U.S. flights to Haiti for 30 days in the wake of Monday&#8217;s gunfire incidents, according to a Notice to Air Mission issued Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;U.S. civil aviation operations in the territory and airspace of Haiti below 10,000 feet&#8221; will be prohibited, according to the FAA.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after a Spirit Airlines plane flying from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Haiti was diverted after it was struck by gunfire while attempting to land in Port-au-Prince, according to the the Haitian National Office of Civil Aviation.<\/p>\n<p>The plane was struck by gunfire four times while attempting to land at Touissant Louverture Airport in the capital city of Port-au-Prince, OFNAC said.<\/p>\n<p>The Spirit Airlines plane &#8220;diverted and landed safely in Santiago, Dominican Republic,&#8221; Spirit Airlines said in a statement Monday, adding that no passengers reported injuries and one flight attendant onboard the plane reported unspecified &#8220;minor injuries&#8221; and was undergoing medical evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>The plane came within 550 feet of the runway before aborting its landing and diverting to the Dominican Republic, according to data on FlightRadar24.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA on Monday had confirmed in a statement that the Spirit Airlines flight landed safely in the Dominican Republic &#8220;after the plane was reportedly damaged by gunfire while trying to land&#8221; at the Port-au-Prince airport.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, a JetBlue flight from Haiti to New York City was also hit by a bullet, the airline said in a statement to ABC News. JetBlue said it would suspend all flights to and from Haiti through Dec. 2 due to the civil unrest in the country.<\/p>\n<p><em>ABC News&#8217; Aicha El Hammar Castano contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Carter\/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; The Federal Aviation Administration has banned U.S. flights to Haiti for 30 days in the wake of Monday&#8217;s gunfire incidents, according to a Notice to Air Mission issued Tuesday. &#8220;U.S. civil aviation operations in the territory and airspace of Haiti below 10,000 feet&#8221; will be<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/faa-bans-us-flights-to-haiti-for-30-days-after-planes-struck-by-gunfire\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}