{"id":358632,"date":"2026-09-02T08:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/us-extends-ban-on-flights-to-haitis-capital-as-gang-violence-surges"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:08:21","slug":"us-extends-ban-on-flights-to-haitis-capital-as-gang-violence-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/us-extends-ban-on-flights-to-haitis-capital-as-gang-violence-surges","title":{"rendered":"US extends ban on flights to Haiti&#8217;s capital as gang violence surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti &#8212; <\/span>The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has extended a ban on U.S. flights to Haiti\u2019s capital until March as gang violence persists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The ban means that commercial operators and U.S. registered civilian aircraft can&#8217;t fly below 10,000 feet (around 3,000 meters) in Port-au-Prince and nearby areas, including parts of central Haiti.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The FAA first halted such flights in November 2025 after gunmen shot at a Spirit Airlines flight as it was landing at Port-au-Prince\u2019s Toussaint Louverture International Airport. A flight attendant received minor injuries and other commercial planes on the ground were hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The FAA has extended its ban several times since that incident, a move that continues to isolate Port-au-Prince from the rest of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The latest extension was implemented on Tuesday and will remain in place until March 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Police and a U.N.-backed gang suppression force are trying to quell gangs that control an estimated 70% of Port-au-Prince and swaths of land in Haiti\u2019s central region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/us-extends-ban-flights-haitis-capital-gang-violence-136140892\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti &#8212; The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has extended a ban on U.S. flights to Haiti\u2019s capital until March as gang violence persists. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":352871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3483,34543,12983,12985,546,34545,34544,7158,34542,2305,173],"class_list":["post-358632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-african-union","tag-central-haiti","tag-haiti","tag-port-au-prince","tag-prince","tag-princes-toussaint-louverture-worldwide-airport","tag-spirit-airways","tag-u-s-federal","tag-u-s-federal-aviation-administration","tag-united-nations","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358634,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358632\/revisions\/358634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}