More than 100 passengers were killed when a Cubana Airlines flight crashed near Havana’s Jose Marti International Airport on Friday, according to Cuban officials and state media.
“There has been an unfortunate aviation accident,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said. “The news is not very promising; it seems that there is a high number of victims.”
According to Cuba’s state-run newspaper Granma, three women survived the accident and were taken to the General Calixto García University Hospital. They are in critical condition.
A total of 114 people were aboard the Boeing 737 aircraft, which was taking off from Havana to travel to another Cuban city, Holguin. The crash occurred shortly after noon.
