A Cuban man landed a small Russian-made plane at an isolated Florida airport after flying it from the Caribbean island, local media reported on Friday, amid a wave of migrants seeking to escape an economic crisis.
The single-engine Antonov An-2 landed at around 11:30 a.m. at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in the Florida Everglades, an NBC affiliate reported.
The man was a defector from Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, the Miami Herald reported, citing Miami-Dade Aviation Department spokesperson Gregory Chin.
