The airline has said one flight attendant was injured in the incident but no passengers were injured.
A Spirit Airlines flight has been shot at while approaching the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.All flights have been suspended in and out of the airport and Spirit said it will evaluate whether or not it will continue flights to the region at this time.
A video circulating on social media, which appears to have been taken by a Spirit employee but which Reuters was unable to immediately verify, shows where another bullet had come through near the back exit door to then strike the overhead bin across the aisle.All flights in and out of the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince have been halted, the US embassy to the Caribbean nation said in a travel advisory.
Spirit said that it had suspended flights to Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien, in Haiti's north, "pending further evaluation". The passengers aboard the Spirit flight on Monday will be taken back in another aircraft to Fort Lauderdale, where the flight departed from, Spirit said.The process of replacing the prime minister is likely to add even more turmoil to a rocky democratic transition process in the Caribbean nation.
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