As is often the case when Haiti’s history takes a turn, there’s an airplane somewhere in the story. Look for it!

The first famous plane was the one that carried the popular interim president Daniel Fignolé into exile in 1957. The most publicized plane was the one that took "president for life" Jean-Claude Duvalier into exile in 1986. The most mysterious planes were those involved in the forced departures of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991 and 2004. And the most unusual was the plane that was prohibited from landing with Ariel Henry in 2024.