Plane in Cuba crash was poorly maintained, alleges former pilot
A Cuban state airways plane with 110 passengers and crew on board crashed shortly after taking off from Havana on Friday, killing all but three people on board in a mass of twisted and smoldering fuselage.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel said an investigation was under way into Friday's crash of the almost 40-year-old Boeing 737, leased to the national carrier Cubana de Aviacion by a Mexican company.
It was carrying 107 passengers - mostly Cubans and also five foreigners - and a six-person flight crew from Mexico.
They are receiving treatment at Havana's Calixto Garcia Hospital, and according to the facility's director, Carlos Alberto Martinez, the women had been significantly hurt in the crash.
Only three people survived a fiery plane crash in Cuba that left 110 others dead, officials in the country said Saturday.
Airport sources said the plane took off at 12:08 pm (1608 GMT) heading for the eastern city of Holguin, 670 kilometres (415 miles) away.
Mexican authorities say the Boeing 737-201 that crashed in Cuba on Friday was built in 1979.
Boeing said that it was ready to send a technical team to Cuba, "as permitted under US law and at the direction of the US National Transportation Safety Board and Cuban authorities".
It adds that the plane was rented by Cuban state carrier Cubana de Aviacion from Aerolineas Damojh.
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The heavily damaged and burnt plane is lying in a field of yuca-root plants.
Cubana de Avacion was wet leasing the aircraft -where the airline leases the plane as well as the crew - in a move the country's Transportation Minister Adel Yzquierdo Rodriguez attributed to the U.S. trade embargo against the island.
Prime Minister Honourable Allen Chastanet has reached out to the Government of Cuba following the deadly plane crash in Havana on Friday that claimed the lives of over 100 people.
A Mexican pilot who used to work for Global Air between 2005 and 2013, Marco Aurelio Hernandez, told the Mexican newspaper Milenio that he had previously flown the doomed plane.
'It's normal for us to rent planes, ' he said, 'because it's convenient and because of the problem of the blockade that we have.
Damojh has declined to comment, while Damojh declined to comment while Mexico's Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics said an audit of the company would be undertaken to ensure it was still "fulfilling norms".
Contacted by AP in Havana, Martinez confirmed his Facebook account but declined to comment further.
He said that with Damojh, "the formula here is that they take care of the maintenance of the aircraft".
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