A plane carrying 21 Americans fleeing Haiti arrived in Orlando, Florida,
the latest in a series of US-chartered flights from the embattled Caribbean nation, which has descended into chaos amid rampant gang violence and political instability.
Florida’s Division of Emergency Management announced the plane’s arrival, noting that, to date, a total of 35 Americans have been “rescued by state-coordinated emergency flights.”
The first Florida-organized flight brought 14 people from Haiti to Orlando Sanford International Airport last week. Guthrie had said on Wednesday roughly 360 Floridians remain in Haiti.
Federal officials have also been working to evacuate American citizens. On March 17, the State Department said it flew dozens of Americans from Cap-Haitien, a city on Haiti’s north coast, to Miami. On Wednesday, the State Department said it expects more than 30 Americans will be able to board the US government flights each day they are chartered.
