Geo436 HAVANA: All 68 people on board an Aero Caribbean plane were killed when it crashed in mountainous central Cuba on Thursday after issuing an emergency call, a government website said on Friday.
“There were no survivors in the plane,” www.cubadebate.cu said. “Its 68 passengers, including seven crew members, died when the aircraft crashed.”
The website published a list of the 40 Cubans and 28 foreigners from 10 countries who were on board.
It posted a photograph showing flames rising from the shattered remains of the plane — an ATR-72-212 twin turboprop built by ATR, a joint venture of Europe’s EADS and Italian group Finmeccanica.
Aero Caribbean is a state-owned regional airline. According to www.planespotters.net, the plane that crashed was one of the youngest in its fleet, at 15 years old.
Witnesses said the plane made “several brusque
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