Big News Network.com (IANS) Saturday 6th November, 2010
The black box and cockpit voice recorder of a plane that crashed in
Cuba, killing all 68 people on board, have been recovered, a media
report said.
Aero Caribbean Flight 883, en route to Havana from the eastern city of
Santiago de Cuba, crashed late Thursday in the central province of
Sancti Spiritus shortly after the crew reported an emergency and contact
was lost.
Provincial chief prosecutor Rolando Diaz said authorities hope the
contents of the recorders will shed light on the cause of the crash, the
official AIN news agency reported Friday.
The plane, a twin-engine ATR-72, is used for regional and short-duration
flights and has a maximum seating capacity of 74 people.
Cuban television and the government website Cubadebate released a list
of the victims including 28 foreigners from 10 different countries who
were aboard the plane.
The travellers from other countries included nine Argentines, seven
Mexicans, three Dutch citizens, two Germans, two Austrians, a Spaniard,
a French citizen, an Italian, a Japanese and a Venezuelan.
Cuba's deadliest plane crash of the past three decades occurred in
September 1989, when an Il-62 travelling to Milan went down in Havana
shortly after take-off and killed all 115 on board and 40 people on the
ground.
--IANS/EFE
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