8:53am UK, Friday November 05, 2010
Graham Fitzgerald and Katie Cassidy, Sky News Online
Cuba's civil aviation authority has said there are no survivors
following the crash of a passenger plane carrying 68 people.
Police officers and residents at scene of plane crash near Guasimal in Cuba
Police officers and locals at the scene of the plane crash
AeroCaribbean Flight 883 was en route from the eastern city of Santiago
de Cuba to the capital Havana when it went down.
After making an emergency call, the aircraft lost contact with air
traffic controllers.
All 40 Cubans and 28 foreigners were killed when it crashed in a
mountainous area near the village of Guasimal and burst into flames.
Authorities said those from abroad included nine Argentines, seven
Mexicans, three Dutch citizens, two Germans, two Austrians, a French
citizen, an Italian, a Spaniard, a Venezuelan and a Japanese citizen.
The cause of the crash was under investigation.
Reports said the flight was one of the last leaving Santiago de Cuba for
Havana ahead of tropical storm Tomas.
It was on a track to pass between Cuba's eastern end and the western
coast of Haiti on Friday.
The plane was an ATR-72-212 twin turboprop built by ATR, a joint venture
of Europe's EADS and Italian group Finmeccanica.
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