Plane goes off-runway at airport in Haiti

The Na­tion­al Civ­il Avi­a­tion Of­fice (OFNAC) re­ports that on Fri­day an Em­braer 145 air­craft op­er­at­ed by the com­pa­ny IBC, veered off the run­way as it land­ed at An­toine-Si­mon Air­port in the town Les Cayes, to the west of here.

The air­craft was car­ry­ing five pas­sen­gers and crew mem­bers.

Ac­cord­ing to OFNAC, the air­craft, ar­riv­ing from Mi­a­mi at­tempt­ed to land dur­ing heavy rains, at 2:36 p.m. (lo­cal time).

Dur­ing a sec­ond land­ing at­tempt at 2:40 p.m., the air­craft veered off the run­way, ap­pear­ing to ex­pe­ri­ence brak­ing dif­fi­cul­ties and com­ing to a stop on the north­east shoul­der.

The Hait­ian Na­tion­al Po­lice (PNH) were im­me­di­ate­ly de­ployed to the scene to se­cure the perime­ter.

Tech­ni­cal teams from OFNAC and the Na­tion­al Air­port Au­thor­i­ty (AAN), in co­or­di­na­tion with a team from IBC (In­ter­na­tion­al Busi­ness Cor­po­ra­tion), went to the scene to con­duct a tech­ni­cal as­sess­ment of the in­ci­dent.

Based on this, ap­pro­pri­ate mea­sures will be im­ple­ment­ed to en­sure the safe and or­der­ly re­sump­tion of air­port op­er­a­tions.

CMC