The FAA banned flights to Haiti because a Spirit Airlines plane was shot at while it was trying to land in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, and one flight attendant was injured.

SIGN UP for TheStreet's FREE daily newsletter Related: Spirit, JetBlue and American cancel Haiti flights after planes hit by gunfire The air crew on a JetBlue Airways (JBLU) flight from New York also discovered that the aircraft was grazed by gunfire while landing on the same day.

The Federal Aviation Administration banned U.S. planes from flying less than 10,000 feet above Haiti. The move comes after a Spirit Airlines flight to Haiti was hit by gunfire and a JetBlue aircraft was also struck by a round.