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The crash of an airplane in Cuba is 68 deaths

ATR 72 linking Santiago de Cuba, in the East of the country, with the Cuban airliner crashed Thursday in the centre of the island of the Caribbean. Sixty-one passengers and 7 crew members were on board: forty Cuban, 17 Latin American countries, including nine Argentines, seven Mexican and a Venezuelan, and ten Europeans, including three Dutch nationals, a Frenchman, a Spanish, two Austrians, two German, Italian, and Japanese.


"Is there were no survivors", said the website Cuban official Cubadebate.cu. The website known to publish notes of former President Fidel Castro, made the announcement without further comment by publishing "list of people who died in the crash of the ATR 72-212".

883 Public company Aerocaribbean flight had reported about 5.30 p.m. hour local (23 h 30 French time) of an "emergency", less than an hour after its takeoff Santiago weather due to advance in this part of the Caribbean of storm tropical Tomas, reported the Cuban national television, citing a civil aviation Institute release. The wreckage of the aircraft in flames and scattered pieces lies in the midst of a difficult Bush access.

Residents have rushed to the scene of the crash to help rescue teams who tried in vain to find survivors. A commission was created "to investigate this lamentable accidents" and find the causes, according to the Cuban civil aviation Institute who pointed out that the aircraft had taken off in bad weather.

ALERT

Cuban journalists on-site however indicated that in the central region of Cuba, where the aircraft crashed the temperature was at fixed beauty.

State of alert was however declared Thursday night in the eastern region of Cuba as a result of the advance of its coastal storm tropical Tomas and all flights departing or going to Santiago de Cuba had been suspended at the end of the day.

The last crash Cuban airplane on the island dates back to March 2002. Airplane Antonov-2, which was between the city of Cienfuegos (centre) and resort in Cayo Coco (centre), shuttle crashed, killing 16 people on board, including six Canadian tourists, four British and two German.

The deadliest crash over the last thirty years of a Cuban airliner occurred in September 1989 in Havana. An Ilyushin Il-62 destined for Milan crashed shortly after its take-off, killing its inhabitants, including 113 Italian and 40 tourists killed on the ground by the fall of the apparatus Cubans 115.

The storm tropical Tomas, who made 14 dead in its passage on the island of Saint Lucia, should be strengthened in the next few hours and almost reaching hurricane strength when it will affect the West coast of Haiti on the night of Thursday to Friday.

That's very sad.

This is outside of Tomas' impact area, right?

Sad news continue in the tropics and in Cuba as a plane crashed with 68 passengers! Looks like that bad weather conditions due to Tomas in vicinity of the country have maybe its little influence... but others factors are pointed.
A plane crashes in the centre of Cuba with 68 persons
REUTERS 05.11.2010
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Photo taken on November 4, 2010 / Escambray Daily/Cubadebate
Havana (Reuters) - A plane carrying 68 persons is overwritten in the centre of Cuba Thursday without there survivors, relevant authorities.
Aircraft, an ATR-72-212 equipped with two turboprop engines, belonged to the State Aero Caribbean regional company, said the Cuban television. He was transporting 40 Cubans with seven crew members and 28 foreign originating from 10 countries.
"For the time being, the reasons for the accident are unknown." According to information from the local press, Hurricane Tomas was in the region. "IACC (Cuban civil aviation authority) has suspended all flights of the hurricane", ATR said in a press release issued from its headquarters in Toulouse.
The aircraft manufacturer indicated the apparatus was manufactured 15 years ago and posted 25.000 hours of vol. Aero Caribbean operated since October 2006.
The aircraft had taken off from Santiago de Cuba and was the road when he crashed at 17 h 42 (22 h 42 GMT) in a mountainous region Guasimal town in the region of Sancti Spiritus after a call of distress.
Witnesses called by the Escambray (newspaper) newspaper reported that the aircraft had conducted "several sudden movements before its fall". A witness spoke of a "ball of fire in the middle of the mountain" to describe the disaster.
Rescue teams had to use a backhoe to spawn a passage through the thick vegetation surrounding the accident site and retrieve the corpses.
This crash is deadliest in Cuba since the death of 126 people aboard an IL 3 September 1989 his take-off of the.
ATR is a joint venture between EADS European Group and the Italian Finmeccanica (SIFI.MI >.)
Marc Frank and Pierre Sérisier Jean-Stéphane brush for the French service

This happened 34 years less one day after the tragic events off the west coast of Barbados when all 73 souls were also lost. So very sad

somethingfunny wrote:That's very sad.

This is outside of Tomas' impact area, right?

It occurred in central Cuba, not related to Tomás.