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Plane crashes in Cuba, no survivors reported
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November 5, 2010, Friday
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A passenger plane crashed in central Cuba last night, and all 68 people onboard were feared dead, the Cuban civil aviation authorities said.
The ATR-72 twin turboprop plane of the state-run Aero Caribbean airline crashed near the town of Guasimal, 355 km east of Havana, in the central Sancti Spiritus province, the Civil Aeronautics Institute of Cuba (IACC) said.
Identities of the passengers will be released soon, the IACC said in a statement.
The ATR-72, a French-Italian made aircraft, is mainly used for regional flights and short trips.
The plane, with 61 passengers and seven crew members including 28 foreigners onboard, was flying to Havana from the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba at 4:45pm (2145 GMT).
The plane issued an emergency call before it lost contact with the control tower at 5:42pm local time (2242 GMT).
Journalists from Guasimal town near the crash site said on Twitter that six bodies have been recovered. "Until now there is no survivor," they said.
Witnesses said the airliner burst into a fireball, adding that rescuers had to use a bulldozer to access the mountainous area where the plane crashed.
An emergency committee has been formed to investigate the accident. An Il-18 plane of the Aero Caribbean airline crashed in mount Isabel de Torres in the Dominican Republic in 1992, killing all 34 people onboard.
The Aero Caribbean operates scheduled domestic passenger services to four domestic destinations and international services, as well as charter flights mainly within the Caribbean and South America.
The ATR-72 twin turboprop plane of the state-run Aero Caribbean airline crashed near the town of Guasimal, 355 km east of Havana, in the central Sancti Spiritus province, the Civil Aeronautics Institute of Cuba (IACC) said.
Identities of the passengers will be released soon, the IACC said in a statement.
The ATR-72, a French-Italian made aircraft, is mainly used for regional flights and short trips.
The plane, with 61 passengers and seven crew members including 28 foreigners onboard, was flying to Havana from the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba at 4:45pm (2145 GMT).
The plane issued an emergency call before it lost contact with the control tower at 5:42pm local time (2242 GMT).
Journalists from Guasimal town near the crash site said on Twitter that six bodies have been recovered. "Until now there is no survivor," they said.
Witnesses said the airliner burst into a fireball, adding that rescuers had to use a bulldozer to access the mountainous area where the plane crashed.
An emergency committee has been formed to investigate the accident. An Il-18 plane of the Aero Caribbean airline crashed in mount Isabel de Torres in the Dominican Republic in 1992, killing all 34 people onboard.
The Aero Caribbean operates scheduled domestic passenger services to four domestic destinations and international services, as well as charter flights mainly within the Caribbean and South America.
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