Cuba - Plane crash after takeoff 104 passengers 18 May 2018

[watcher9]

Breaking story - Boeing 737 crashed just after takeoff from 'left José Martí International Airport outside Havana' in Cuba carrying 104 passengers.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/passenger-jet-crashes-takeoff-cuba-reports/story?id=55266592

 

[watcher9]

Residents of the rural area said they had seen some survivors being taken away in ambulances.

Article with pictures.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/18/cuban-airline-jet-crashes-at-havana-airport-reports-say.html

 

[watcher9]

A huge fireball was spotted after a Cubana airliner crashed during takeoff at Havana’s Jose Marti airport on Friday.

Reports also indicate that there is a thick plume of smoke visible around the airport.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/cuba-plane-crash-live/index.html

 

[LadyL]

that is good news - I did not expect to read about survivors

Residents of the rural area said they had seen some survivors being taken away in ambulances.

Article with pictures.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/18/cuban-airline-jet-crashes-at-havana-airport-reports-say.html

 

[dotr]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plane-crash-havana-cuba-today-2018-05-18/

"My daughter is 24, my God, she's only 24!" cried Beatriz Pantoja, whose daughter Leticia was on board the plane. Pantoja and other family members were rushed to a private area inside an airport terminal in the afternoon.

 

[watcher9]

Total of 113 persons on plane.

'...three passengers were said to have survived in critical condition, local media reported.'

'The flight from Havana to Holguin, a city in eastern Cuba, had 104 passengers and nine crew members on board.'

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/0...-113-aboard-crashes-3-survivors-critical.html

 

[gregjrichards]

Total of 113 persons on plane.

'...three passengers were said to have survived in critical condition, local media reported.'

'The flight from Havana to Holguin, a city in eastern Cuba, had 104 passengers and nine crew members on board.'

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/0...-113-aboard-crashes-3-survivors-critical.html

I can’t imagine it is absolutely horrendous.

 

[gregjrichards]

Total of 113 persons on plane.

'...three passengers were said to have survived in critical condition, local media reported.'

'The flight from Havana to Holguin, a city in eastern Cuba, had 104 passengers and nine crew members on board.'

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/0...-113-aboard-crashes-3-survivors-critical.html

I can’t imagine it is absolutely horrendous.

 

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[watcher9]

Yzquierdo also said the jet's "black box" voice recorder had been recovered and that Cuban officials had granted a U.S. request for investigators from Boeing to travel to the island.

Eyewitness and private salon owner Rocio Martinez said she heard a strange noise and looked up to see the plane with a turbine on fire.

"It had an engine on fire, in flames, it was falling toward the ground," Martinez said, adding that the plane veered into the field where it crashed, avoiding potential fatalities in a nearby residential area.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...ash-had-received-safety-complaints/ar-AAxxhKy

 

[watcher9]

"On that plane were 10 couples of pastors. 20 people, all of the Nazarene Church in the eastern region,” Maite Quesada, a member of the Cuban Council of Churches, confirmed.

Investigators are still in the process of identifying other victims and notifying next of kin.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/20-religious-leaders-killed-in-cuban-737-plane-crash/ar-AAxwuaj

 

[gregjrichards]

It is amazing anyone survived I wonder where they were on the plane.

 

[watcher9]

It is amazing anyone survived I wonder where they were on the plane.

I was just thinking the same thing.