Posted on 11/12/2024 8:27:05 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
Spirit Airlines said that damage "consistent with gunfire" had been found when the plane was inspected at Santiago Airport. The aircraft was taken out of commission, Spirit added.
The airline suspended flights to Haiti "pending further evaluation".
American Airlines and JetBlue have also suspended flights to Haiti.
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Hell, there isn’t anybody left in Haiti anyway. They’ve all moved to Ohio.
This is like closing down a Rite-Aide in Chicago. The left will scream racism. Those who actually have skin in the game will stop playing.
its a net benefit for the USA. Maybe a plane will even get shot down
Now Biden can’t fly in illegals from Haiti under his corrupt expedited asylum application process.
In other news...........Dogs and cats disappearing in Ohio................
Was this a Biden flight to bring Haitians to the US ?
Is it just me or is that some kind of irony that the airline hit by gunfire was Spirit?
If the gangs in Haiti will take target practice on airliners, imagine what they will do to cats after border-jumping into the U.S.A.?
Along with water birds.
Actually there’s a way if the involved agencies are interested enough to do the work
Years ago an man was arrested for shooting at military aircraft that flew over his farm. The military calculated the angle , timing and height of the planes when the were hit and figured out where the shots came from
Wish I could give the specifics but it’s been many years ago and my memory is going
They said , look a big bird good eating , SHOOT
WTF would ANYONE go to Haiti??
A Haitian with an AK-47?
That Clinton Foundation did a whole lot good down there didn’t they.
During my Haiti years and endless coups and technicals carrying on with each other with small arms arguably the biggest pain in the ass was the airport closed so easily and for weeks
You had to seek alternate exfil
With the assistance of the Bushes.
That sounds like a story that made it into Reader's Digest decades ago. It may not have been in the United States.
Maintenance crews at an airbase found bullet holes in some of their aircraft. After it was repeated, they looked at the flight pattern and figured it was from a nearby ranch.
The authorities, along with a few military staff from the base, visited the rancher who called in an old ranch hand who was the only one who had been in the flight path area. The old ranch hand admitted to doing it, saying the jets scattered the sheep, some of which he had to put down due to their injuries while fleeing.
The military was amazed that the old rancher was able to draw a bead and lead the aircraft to put rounds into them. They were going to arrest him but he insisted he shot away from the pilots as evidenced in their photographs. He also he asked them how he could put bullets into the side of their planes unless they were flying so low to the ground.
The pilots agreed not to violate the altitude minimums and the old ranch hand agreed not to shoot at them anymore. After that, he'd wave while they did rolls or wagged their wings high overhead when passing the ranch.
My parents relocated to the great State of Texas when I was a wee lad in large part of what the Haitians did to our neighborhood, which priced my family out of South Florida.
They literally turned a quite, safe, working class neighborhood into a warzone in less than a year.
Major grocery chains and retailers closed up, every house that didn't have a large dog in our neighborhood was broken into, and I witnessed an old Jewish lady get mugged in broad daylight (luckily that perp got instant karma, one of the neighbors was a minor player for the Dolphins and made that guy regret his life choices while giving the old lady her purse back).
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