HAVANA May 19 (TNS): At least 100 people have been killed in a plane crash accident occurred in the Cuban capital when a Boeing 737 borrowed to a Mexican airline by Cubana de Aviación, the local airline, crashed shortly after taking off from Havana´s Jose Marti International Airport.
According to Radio Habana Cuba, the flight was on its route to the Cuban eastern province of Holguin with 110 people on board. Two days of national mourning have been declared, after Cuba’s worst air disaster since the 1980s.
There were six Mexican crew members on board; the passengers were mainly Cuban, with five foreigners among them, Radio Havana Cuba reports.
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The Boeing 737-201 crashed at 12; 08 (16:08 GMT) on Friday, shortly after taking off from Havana on an internal flight to Holguin in the east of the island. The Mexican authorities said the plane was built in 1979 and had been successfully inspected last November, BBC reported.
Radio Havana Cuba said on Twitter that the plane crashed on the road between Boyeros and Havana, about 20km (12 miles) south of the capital.
As of the latest local media reports, three passengers survived the accident and are hospitalized in critical condition.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel went to the site of the crash, along with other Cuban authorities.
