Air traffic between Haiti and the United States was back to normal on Tuesday, October 27, after a communications problem between air navigation services in Miami and Haiti, officials at the civil aviation office (OFNAC) and the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications (TPTC) told Le Nouvelliste. “The situation is resolved,” they said.

According to the officials, the Federal Aviation Administration's Miami control center was changing its communication system with several Caribbean countries, and some of them temporarily lost contact during the switchover. The problem led to one flight being stopped and a Sunrise Airways flight that had already left the United States turning back.

The officials rejected reports that the airspace between the two countries had been closed. “Everything has returned to normal,” they said.

Update, October 28: In a statement dated October 27, the civil aviation office OFNAC called reports of a closure of Haitian airspace “unfounded.” It said the disruptions came from communication problems between several countries and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, which also affected Jamaica, and that some aircraft had been turned back or held on the ground as a temporary measure, Le Nouvelliste reported.