From Shasta Darlington, CNN
November 5, 2010 -- Updated 0326 GMT (1126 HKT)
Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- A domestic passenger plane with 61 passengers and
7 crew members onboard crashed in central Cuba Thursday, state media
reported.
State-run Radio Reloj said there were no survivors.
The Aerocaribbean plane was carrying 28 foreign passengers and 40
Cubans, state media said.
The plane was traveling from the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba
and heading to the country's capital of Havana, the state-run website
Cubadebate reported.
The Civil Aviation Institute of Cuba said Flight 883 lost contact with
air traffic controllers around 5:42 p.m. (4:42 p.m. ET), Cubadebate said.
Authorities were still trying to determine what caused the crash late
Thursday, state media said.
Preliminary reports indicate that the plane crashed in a rural part of
the country, near the Zaza Reservoir, the largest reservoir in Cuba,
according to state media.
All the doctors in the province have been mobilized, according to a
hospital worker who declined to give her name because she was not
authorized to speak to the media. The hospital worker said she saw the
plane crash from 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) away.
"When it hit the ground, it burst into flames," she said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/11/04/cuba.plane.crash/index.html?hpt=T2
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