Cuban Plane Crash Kills 68 Passengers

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State media: Plane crashes in central Cuba, 68 dead

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Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- A domestic passenger plane with 61 passengers and 7 crew members crashed in central Cuba Thursday, state media reported.

There were no survivors.

The Aerocaribbean plane was carrying 28 foreign passengers and 40 Cubans, state media said.

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Cuban Plane Crash Kills 68 Passengers</NYT_HEADLINE>

<NYT_BYLINE>By ELISABETH MALKIN

</NYT_BYLINE>Published: November 5, 2010

MEXICO CITY ? Working amid dense thickets of thorny trees, rescue workers labored on Friday to recover the victims of a plane crash in central Cuba that killed all 68 people aboard.

The AeroCaribbean flight crashed into mountains in the central province of Sancti Sp?ritus Thursday afternoon an hour after it took off from Santiago de Cuba, at the island?s eastern tip, bound for Havana.

The cause of the crash, in which all 61 passengers and 7 crew members died, remained unclear, according to the plane?s manufacturer, ATR. Among the dead were 28 foreigners, mostly Latin Americans and Europeans, Cuba?s civil aviation institute told news agencies.

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Saturday Nov. 6, 2010

Cuba recovers final bodies from plane wreckage

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Date: Saturday Nov. 6, 2010 3:50 PM ET
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HAVANA<!-- /dateline --> ? Recovery teams removed the last charred bodies from the wreckage of an airliner that went down in mountainous central Cuba, as officials vowed Saturday to get to the bottom of what caused the crash and said they have the capacity to do it alone.

All 68 people aboard AeroCaribbean Flight 883 were killed when the turboprop plane went down Thursday afternoon in a remote area near the village of Guasimal in Sancti Spiritus province. Twenty-eight foreigners were among the dead.

"The recovery of the mortal remains of the victims of the crash has ended," local state-run newspaper Escambray said. The bodies were brought by refrigerated truck to the medical examiner's office at a military site in the capital.

Chief investigator Rolando Diaz Vergal painted a grim scene of what rescue workers discovered at the crash site, saying those on board hardly had time to react as the plane plummeted to the ground.

"All the bodies are burned except for two that were in the back of the plane," Vergal told Escambray. "It seems the passengers had no time to react because the burned bodies are still in their own seats, which has helped us with the identifications."

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