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He took off from Sanci Spiritus Cuba and made it to Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport
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He took off from Sanci Spiritus Cuba and made it to Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport
MIAMI -- The mass exodus from Cuba took a twist Friday, when someone in an old Soviet-era cropduster took off from the island just 90 miles north of Key West and landed somewhere west of Krome Avenue in the Everglades.
On Friday, the exodus of Cubans leaving the island continued, although this time, not in homemade sea vessels but rather a small plane.
A Cuban pilot landed a small Russian-made plane at a South Florida airport Friday, officials said.
Florida's ghost airport: Everglades Jetport was to be the world's biggest hub, with Boeing's answer to Concorde coming and going. But all that remains is a runway to nowhere in a swamp... The vision for Everglades Jetport in Florida in the 1960s was for it to be the biggest airport in the world It was set to occupy a 24,960-acre plot five times larger than the footprint for New York's JFK Airport Building began in 1968, but a year later, a damming environmental report led to work being halted for good