In the country’s worse plane crash since 1989, all 68 people aboard a Cuban airliner were killed Thursday when the aircraft crashed in the island’s central mountains, according to AOL News.
The AeroCaribbean Flight 883 was flying from Santiago de Cuba to the capital Havana when it lost contact with flight controllers. The pilot had made an emergency call before the plane landed in a fiery explosion near Guisimal, a village.
There were no survivors among the 61 passengers and seven crew members. The passenger list had 40 Cubans and 28 foreigners, none Americans. The crew was all Cuban.
The fallen jet was a Russan-made ATR-72-212, and it is part of Cuba’s state airine fleet. Flight 883 originated in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and had a stop at Santiago de Cuba before going on to Havana.
The doomed flight was the last one to take off from Haiti before Tropical Storm Tomas, which is looming in the Caribbean. But Cuban officals are investigating and don’t now if the weather played a part in the accident.
According to AOL News, this is Cuba’s worse plane crash since 1989, when 126 people onboard a Soviet-made jet were killed.