Flying to Haiti? If you can even find a flight now, don't expect Fantasy Island's welcoming committee.

As visitors approached Fantasy Island, Tattoo at least alerted the welcoming committee with honest enthusiasm and a sense of the excitement to come. Maybe that’s simply what grounded gunman in Haiti attempted to do to passengers on a Spirit Airlines flight from Florida when they fired upon the approaching airliner as well. They simply wanted to get a jump on filling passengers with the sense of danger, violence and chaos that has become part of daily life for many Haitians. After years of corrupt leaders, political disruptions, natural disasters and the assassination of a president left warring factions attempting to gain control of the poor island nation, Haiti has really become Nightmare Island

In the shooting of the Spirit Airlines plane on Monday, Nov. 11, one attendant received minor injuries from debris, the fuselage of the plane was punctured from bullets near an exit door and passing through an overhead baggage compartment and the plane was forced to divert to the neighboring Dominican Republic. 

The Airbus A320, Spirit Airlines Flight 951 departed from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport with 48 passengers on board and was circling Port-au-Prince at around 550 feet when it apparently took the gunfire and began to climb, CBS News reported.

Two other planes were immediately diverted and the airport was subsequently closed.

Later that night, a JetBlue plane that had departed from Haiti that same day and safely landed at New York’s JFK Airport was discovered to have a bullet hole in it as well. Maybe the gunmen were upset to see them go.

As a result, Spirit, JetBlue and American Airlines all suspended flights to Haiti for the present time.

“The security situation in Haiti is unpredictable and dangerous,” the U.S. Embassy in Haiti said in a statement. “Travel within Haiti is conducted at your own risk. The U.S. government cannot guarantee your safety traveling to airports, borders, or during any onward travel. You should consider your personal security situation before traveling anywhere in Haiti.”

Planning a tropical vacation? Haiti probably isn’t the place you want to consider right now…or maybe ever.

12 COMMENTS

  1. I got an idea.

    Since the democrat party and democrat politicians are all so stressed out about Trump winning the election, to help them recover, lets offer them a tax-payer funded mandatory ‘me time mental health recovery’ trip to Haiti. I’ll bet in no time at all they will never need to worry about it again.

    They should be familiar with the environment already and feel right at home, after all they did the same thing to our cities only on a more diluted scale by use of their ‘progressive justice reform’.

  2. Anyone who is familiar with the history of Haiti would immediately understand. Everyone in Haiti is Black because the Haitian systematically exterminated all of the White people back in 1804. White women were spared only if they consented to marry a Black man, but their mixed race children were subsequently exterminated.

  3. First, why would anyone get on a plane to Haiti?
    Next, why is anyone surprised that commercial aircraft are being shot? Third world country, third world B.S.

  4. I’ve had some experience with small arms ground fire. Flying in and out of DaNang a few times back in 65/66. I’d advise anyone flying into (or out of ) Haiti take along some Level 3A armor to sit on. Commercial jets don’t offer much protection.

    • Better yet Gunny, don’t go to Haiti. The Clinton Foundation has done so much there to help. All that money and look at the wonderful things they did there to help. The Dominican Republic hopefully has a better border wall than we do.

    • 🎶🎵They’re eating the dogs. Eating the cat’s🎶🎵😀🤠🙄I’ve known a few Haitians. One told me he can never go back because he’s “Americanized” and he’d be killed. My church had white missionaries there. They fled. They still have native Haitians there who are in great peril. As mentioned by other’s Haiti is cursed.

  5. While stationed on Guam a local deputy sheriff decided to take a couple of pot shots at a B-52 on a touch & go training flight (yea they caught him). The A.F. gave the pilot a medal.

  6. Ahh, so that’s what I’m doing wrong, 550ft. I’ve been trying to take out my Big Old Jet Airliners at 32,000.
    Hatia, well I hate’cha too

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