A Cuban landed in South Florida in a Russian-made plane from the 1940s

HAVANA, Oct. 21st  A Cuban pilot landed this Friday in South Florida (USA) with an old Russian-made plane. Apparently, he was alone, according to authorities.Miami International Airport (MIA) officials said the Antonov An-2 single-engine aircraft landed at Dade-Collier Transition and Training Airport around 11:30 a.m. (3:30 p.m. GMT) this morning.

The aforementioned airfield is located in the middle of the immense wetland of the Florida Everglades, near the highway that runs from Miami to Tampa known as the Tamiami Trail.

The Cuban pilot was identified as Rubén Martínez

According to the authorities, the Cuban pilot said that he had flown from Sancti Spíritus, a province in central Cuba located more than 400 kilometers east of Havana.

The CiberCuba media identified the pilot as Rubén Martínez and showed images of the small plane, yellow and blue, stopped at the edge of the airfield runway.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials said their agents were on their way to that airport to investigate what happened.

The Antonov An-2, also called the Annushka, is a single-engine biplane originally from the 1940s and was the first model in the Antonov range of aircraft, which also operate in commercial aviation.

Usually. The model that landed this Friday in Florida is used as a light transport with a capacity for 12 passengers, skydiving and agricultural work.

In the fiscal year of 2021 (until September 30) the number of Cubans arriving in the US by sea and land shot up to historical levels. So far in the first month of 2022, more than 400 have been intercepted at sea aboard rudimentary vessels.

(With information from EFE)