More than 100 dead in plane crash in Cuba, 3 survivors in critical condition
- 6 years ago
We begin tonight in Cuba.
More than one-hundred people have died after a plane crashed shortly after takeoff near Havana.
The authorities in Cuba say three people survived, but are in critical condition.
Seoul's foreign ministry is looking into whether there were any South Korean nationals onboard.
Cha Sang-mi starts us off.
At least a hundred people died in a plane crash in Cuba on Friday just past noon, local time.
Cuba's state-run media says 113 people were onboard the Boeing 737 -- 104 passengers, including five children, and nine crew.
Three women reportedly survived, but are said to be in critical condition and are being treated at the General Calixto Garcia University Hospital.
The plane had just taken off from Havana's Jose Marti International Airport bound for Holguin, a city in eastern Cuba.
Residents nearby reported sounds of an "explosion" prior to the crash.
"The plane left the airport, then it came to here and it seemed that it could not go up. And it came to here, and when it met the house, it turned. And when it turned, it got tangled in the cables. And that's where it fell, and it fell down."
Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel visited the scene and said the fire from the crash had been put out and an investigation is ongoing to determine the cause of the disaster.
The airliner was built in 1979 and had been leased to Cuba's state airline by a Mexican company.
It was successfully inspected last November, according to authorities in Mexico.
The deadly air disaster comes just a year after a military flight crashed in Cuba, killing all eight onboard.
Sixty-eight people also died in a commercial Aero Caribbean plane crash in 2010.
Cha Sang-mi, Arirang News.
More than one-hundred people have died after a plane crashed shortly after takeoff near Havana.
The authorities in Cuba say three people survived, but are in critical condition.
Seoul's foreign ministry is looking into whether there were any South Korean nationals onboard.
Cha Sang-mi starts us off.
At least a hundred people died in a plane crash in Cuba on Friday just past noon, local time.
Cuba's state-run media says 113 people were onboard the Boeing 737 -- 104 passengers, including five children, and nine crew.
Three women reportedly survived, but are said to be in critical condition and are being treated at the General Calixto Garcia University Hospital.
The plane had just taken off from Havana's Jose Marti International Airport bound for Holguin, a city in eastern Cuba.
Residents nearby reported sounds of an "explosion" prior to the crash.
"The plane left the airport, then it came to here and it seemed that it could not go up. And it came to here, and when it met the house, it turned. And when it turned, it got tangled in the cables. And that's where it fell, and it fell down."
Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel visited the scene and said the fire from the crash had been put out and an investigation is ongoing to determine the cause of the disaster.
The airliner was built in 1979 and had been leased to Cuba's state airline by a Mexican company.
It was successfully inspected last November, according to authorities in Mexico.
The deadly air disaster comes just a year after a military flight crashed in Cuba, killing all eight onboard.
Sixty-eight people also died in a commercial Aero Caribbean plane crash in 2010.
Cha Sang-mi, Arirang News.