Migrant lands at airport in Everglades flying plane from Cuba

(WSVN) – A Cuban migrant who took off from the island in a single-engine aircraft has landed in the Everglades.

The migrant landed at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport at around 11:30 a.m., Friday.

The pilot, who has been identified as Ruben Martinez, left from Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, in an Antonov AN-2 Soviet-era crop duster.

Martinez was intercepted by Customs and Border Patrol agents and is now in their custody.

The Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport is not a fully functioning airport in Big Cypress National Preserve. It was built to land supersonic aircraft and at times is used for pilots to practice takeoffs and landings.

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