The American passenger plane was targeted over the Haitian capital
reported by Mehr News Agency According to Reuters, the American airline “Spirit Airlines” announced that one of its flights to Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, was shot at near the destination airport and had to change its route. It has landed in the neighboring country, the Dominican Republic.
This airline confirmed the damage to the said plane and announced that it was disabled immediately after landing in Santiago.
Also, according to this company, one of the plane’s crew was injured and “Miami Herald” wrote that this person was shot. None of the passengers were injured.
The video circulating on the internet shows where the bullets hit. It seems that several bullets hit the luggage compartment above the passenger seat.
The U.S. Embassy in Haiti has issued a travel alert, announcing that all flights from and to Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince have been suspended. The said plane was shot down while an hour before, Alex Didier Félisame was officially announced as the new Prime Minister of Haiti.
Armed criminal gangs in Haiti’s capital have targeted planes over the city in recent weeks. Last month, the UN helicopter was targeted over this city.
This country located in the Caribbean has plunged into a deep humanitarian crisis due to years of dealing with the violence of drug gangs; The crisis that has forced more than 700,000 people to leave their homes has deepened poverty and deadly hunger in this country. According to the announcement of the United Nations, the war and armed conflict of criminal gangs in Haiti has led to the death of about four thousand people this year.
