Spirit Airlines Flight Hit by Gunfire While Trying to Land in Haiti, One Injured

Chaos broke out on a Spirit Airlines flight Monday as it was struck by gunfire while attempting to land in Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince … injuring a flight attendant, TMZ has confirmed

The flight, which was coming in from Fort Lauderdale, was diverted from Toussaint Louverture International Airport after bullets pierced the cabin … and it made a safe landing in nearby Santiago, in the Dominican Republic.

A flight attendant was reportedly grazed by a bullet … and a clip circulating online shows the aircraft riddled with bullet holes inside the plane.

Toussaint Louverture International Airport was forced to ground all commercial flights after the incident … and flight tracking showed both JetBlue Airways and Amerijet Cargo planes rerouting away from Haiti.

The incident went down just hours before Haiti’s new prime minister, Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, was about to be sworn in after kicking out Prime Minister Garry Conille.

The exact cause of the gunfire is currently unknown. Armed gangs were reportedly responsible for firing on a United Nations helicopter in October, striking it and forcing it to land. No one was injured in that incident.