At least three commercial flights going from the United States to Santiago International Airport were diverted to Las Américas International Airport at dawn this Saturday due to adverse weather conditions in the 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 plane also had a malfunction in its navigation equipment, so the pilot decided to divert the plane to Las Americas.
The plane landed at 3 and 18 minutes in the morning on the runway of Las Américas, José Francisco Peña Gómez, without any setbacks.
While due to the bad weather conditions recorded over the Santiago terminal last night, with fog preventing the pilots from seeing the runway, two other flights were diverted to the Las Américas terminal.
One of them from Spirit Airlines and the other from JetBlue, the first from Miami, USA and the second from New York City, with dozens of Dominicans living in that city coming to enjoy Christmas and the weekend. years in the country.
Both operations landed this Saturday at sunrise at Las Américas Airport, José Francisco Peña Gómez. The planes would return to the Santiago terminal for this Saturday.
PASSENGERS
The passengers of the three flights diverted to Santo Domingo were transferred to Santiago in the first hours of today, from Las Américas, according to procedures of the staff of the respective airlines.
One of the JetBlue planes, the one that took damage still in his navigation equipment was parked this afternoon in the cargo hold of the airport of Las Américas, where he