At least three commercial flights bound for Santiago International Airport from the United States were diverted to the International Airport of the Americas this Saturday morning in bad weather conditions prevailing in the United States. Santiago terminal area.
Among the diverted flights are two of the JetBlue airline, flight 558-JB, from New York City to the Santiago de los Caballeros International Terminal.
According to reports, this aircraft also suffered damage to its navigation equipment, so the pilot decided to divert the plane to the Americas.
The plane landed at 3 and 18 minutes in the morning on the runway of the Americas, José Francisco Peña Gómez, without any setbacks.
While due to the bad weather conditions that were recorded last night on the Santiago terminal, with fog that prevented the visibility of the runway to the pilots, two flights were diverted to the terminal of the Americas.
One of them is Spirit Airlines and the other is JetBlue, the first from Miami, the USA and the second from New York City, with dozens of Dominicans living in this city, who come to enjoy the Christmas and New Year in the country.
The two operations landed this Saturday morning at the Americas airport, José Francisco Peña Gómez. By this Saturday the aircraft were expected to return to the Santiago terminal.
PASSENGERS
In relation to the passengers of the three flights diverted to Santo Domingo, these were transferred in the early hours of today to Santiago, from Las Américas, by diligence of personnel of respective airlines.
One of the JetBlue aircraft, the one that suffered damage in his navigation equipment still this afternoon was parked in the loading area of the airport the Americas, where the