A Spirit Airlines flight from Florida was damaged by gunfire en route to Haiti and diverted to the neighboring country of the Dominican Republic, the airline said.

Spirit Airlines flight 951 from Fort Lauderdale was shot at on Monday by gangs near the Aeroport International Toussaint Louverture in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. The plane was just “hundreds of feet” from the runway when shots hit the aircraft and left a ...

A Spirit Airlines plane diverted to the Dominican Republic, and one crewmember was injured when it was apparently struck by gunfire while attempting to land at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince,