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The mass exodus from Cuba took an unusual twist Friday, when a pilot in a Soviet-era biplane took off from the island just 90 miles south of Key West and landed on a isolated runway at a mostly-forgotten jetport in the middle of the Everglades. Running low on fuel, the pilot contacted the control tower at the airport used mainly for training about 50 miles west of Miami and said he needed to touchdown quickly. The call to the tower gave federal agents enough time to race to the jetport to meet the pilot. “He said he was a defector from Sancti Spiritus, Cuba,” said Gregory Chin, a spokesperson for the Miami-Dade County Aviation Department, which owns the facility. Sancti Spiritus is located in central Cuba, roughly 270 miles from the landing spot, and is one of the island’s oldest Cuban European settlements. The plane was reported to be a single-engine Antonov An-2 aircraft, a model that on-line references describe as built for crop dusting and other work. Late Friday, the plane, which appears to be a vintage model, remained parked off the long runway at the training facility off Tamiami Trial, which is 30 miles almost directly west of the Miccosukee Casino & Resort and Krome Avenue.
The mass exodus from Cuba took an unusual twist Friday, when a pilot in a Soviet-era biplane took off from the island just 90 miles south of Key West and landed on a isolated runway at a mostly-forgotten jetport in the middle of the Everglades. Running low on fuel, the pilot contacted the control tower at the airport used mainly for training about 50 miles west of Miami and said he needed to touchdown quickly. The call to the tower gave federal agents enough time to race to the jetport to meet the pilot. “He said he was a defector from Sancti Spiritus, Cuba,” said Gregory Chin, a spokesperson for the Miami-Dade County Aviation Department, which owns the facility. Sancti Spiritus is located in central Cuba, roughly 270 miles from the landing spot, and is one of the island’s oldest Cuban European settlements. The plane was reported to be a single-engine Antonov An-2 aircraft, a model that on-line references describe as built for crop dusting and other work. Late Friday, the plane, which appears to be a vintage model, remained parked off the long runway at the training facility off Tamiami Trial, which is 30 miles almost directly west of the Miccosukee Casino & Resort and Krome Avenue.
