“The explosion shook everything,” recounted Yasniel Diaz, who was near the airport and saw the plane fall to the ground and smash into it. — REUTERS pic“At one point, I saw the plane try to land, but obviously it couldn’t,” he said. Despite the disaster, Havana’s airport continued working. Two kilometers (a mile) from the crash site, Yosvany Sarmientos was riding a bicycle with his son. The Boeing 737 operated by Cubana de Aviacion crashed "near the international airport," state agency Prensa Latina reported.

Source: New Strait Times May 19, 2018 02:48 UTC