Geo436 HAVANA: A plane carrying 68 people crashed in central Cuba on Thursday night, the Cuban national television reported.
The ATR-72 turboprop plane of the state-run Aero Caribbean airline crashed near the village of Guasimal, 355 km east of Havana, in the central Sancti Spiritus province, the Civil Aeronautics Institute of Cuba (IACC) said.
There were no reports on the casualties so far.
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 4:45 p.m. (2145 GMT).
The plane lost contact with the control tower at 5:42 p.m. local time (2242 GMT).
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
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