Cuban TV says airline crashes with 68 aboard

Cuban TV says airline crashes with 68 aboard

Cuba's state television says a passenger plane flying from the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba to Havana has crashed with 69 people aboard — including 28 foreigners.

There is no immediate word whether there are survivors from Thursday's crash.

State TV says the AeroCaribbean flight went down near the village of Guasimal in the area of Sancti Spiritus, carrying 61 passengers and a crew of seven. The report says 28 of the passengers were foreigners, but there is no breakdown of nationalities.

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Ap cuban airline crash

MY HEART TO THE FAMILIES WILL UPDATE!! As details come available....

Planes crash occasionaly, but I wonder if it is just mechanical problems???

If this is a accident it is a very sad one, not only cubans die but other nationalities.

If this thread is in the wrong place i'm sorry please move. The news just broke and wanted to get it OUT to the ATS community...

From your link:

The flight would have been one of the last leaving Santiago de Cuba for Havana ahead of Tropical Storm Tomas, which was on a track to pass between Cuba's eastern end and the western coast of Haiti. Cuban media said earlier that flights and train service to Santiago were being suspended until the storm passed.

AeroCaribbean is owned by Cuban state airline Cubana de Aviacion.

Met Services of Jamaica Radar

Very sad. I'll wander some of the Caribbean web papers and see if there is more info.

It must of crashed into uncrowded area near the village of Guasimal in the area of Sancti Spiritus
Here is a map of the area

MAP OF SANCTI SPIRITUS

I can't find anything other than a short blurb similar to other news sources ..

like this one from Sierra Maestra

I've been through all the Cuba and regional web links, that I know about, as well as Jamaica and Cayman Islands sites.

Awful news.