Close X
Thursday, January 16, 2025
ADVT 
International

Cuba Plane Crash: Over 100 Dead After Boeing 737 Crashes In Havana

Darpan News Desk, 18 May, 2018 05:21 PM
    A Boeing 737 domestic passenger plane, with 104 passengers including five children and nine crew members from Havana to Holguin, came down shortly after takeoff.
     
     
    Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel said there are three survivors, all women, who are in critical condition, reported news agency Reuters. Rescue operations are underway at the site; the fire has been put out and authorities are trying to identify the bodies.
     
     
    Boeing, in a statement, said it was apprised of the crash and was closely monitoring the situation. According to flight tracker, the aircraft was CU972, which departed from Havana at 11 am local time.
     
     
    Firefighters were trying to extinguish its smoldering remains. Government officials including President Miguel Diaz-Canel rushed to the site, along with a large number of emergency medical workers and ambulances. Residents of the rural area said they had seen some survivors being taken away in ambulances.
     
     
    A military officer who declined to provide his name to reporters said that there appeared to have been only three survivors in critical condition, but other officials declined to confirm that figure.
     
     
    The plane was rented by Cubana, which has taken many of its aging planes out of service in recent months due to mechanical problems. Cuba’s First Vice-President, Salvador Valdes Mesa, met Thursday with Cubana officials to discuss improvements in its heavily criticized service.
     
     
     
     
     
     

    MORE International ARTICLES

    Manchester Airport Pipe Bomb Plot: Nadeem Muhammad Guilty

    Manchester Airport Pipe Bomb Plot: Nadeem Muhammad Guilty
    A 43-year-old Pakistan-born man with an Italian passport was on Tuesday found guilty of trying to smuggle a pipe bomb onto a plane at Manchester Airport.

    Manchester Airport Pipe Bomb Plot: Nadeem Muhammad Guilty

    James Damore, The Google Employee Fired For His Anti-Diversity Manifesto By CEO Sundar Pichai

    James Damore, The Google Employee Fired For His Anti-Diversity Manifesto By CEO Sundar Pichai
    A memo written by a male engineer at Google about gender differences sparked a quick rebuttal from Google after it circulated widely online.

    James Damore, The Google Employee Fired For His Anti-Diversity Manifesto By CEO Sundar Pichai

    Not Going To Run Scared From North Korea: Nikki Haley

    Not Going To Run Scared From North Korea: Nikki Haley
    The US and the international community is “not going to run scared from North Korea”, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has said after Pyongyang refused to roll back its nuclear weapons programme.

    Not Going To Run Scared From North Korea: Nikki Haley

    Wisconsin Sikh Tragedy Forms Mission To Combat Hatred

    Wisconsin Sikh Tragedy Forms Mission To Combat Hatred
    In the five years since a white supremacist fatally shot six worshippers at a Milwaukee-area Sikh temple, those affected by the tragedy have remained united by a mission to combat hatred.

    Wisconsin Sikh Tragedy Forms Mission To Combat Hatred

    Senate Confirms Indian Americans Neil Chatterjee, Vishal Amin, And Krishna Urs To Key Positions

    Senate Confirms Indian Americans Neil Chatterjee, Vishal Amin, And Krishna Urs To Key Positions
    The Senate has unanimously confirmed three Indian-Americans to key government positions, including one as the Trump administration’s czar on intellectual property--an area of sharp differences between the US and India.

    Senate Confirms Indian Americans Neil Chatterjee, Vishal Amin, And Krishna Urs To Key Positions

    Hindus Are Thugs Who Killed Muslims, To Blame For Partition, Say Pak Textbooks

    Hindus Are Thugs Who Killed Muslims, To Blame For Partition, Say Pak Textbooks
    Pakistani high school student Noman Afzal knows “traitorous” Hindus are to blame for the bloodshed that erupted when British India split into two nations 70 years ago. His history textbook tells him so.

    Hindus Are Thugs Who Killed Muslims, To Blame For Partition, Say Pak Textbooks